This report examines the green growth potential and identifies best practices for policy and governance as well as ways to strengthen current practices. As the third largest city in Vietnam, Hai Phong’s economy is growing remarkably at an average rate of 8.7% (2015) in tandem with the growth of the...
Bandung Metropolitan Area (BMA) is home to 8.6 million people and is Indonesia’s second-largest urban agglomeration. Rapid growth has created a number of challenges for the city, including traffic congestion, air pollution, municipal solid waste and water access and management. The BMA also faces several acute disaster risks primarily related...
This report studies green growth trends, challenges and opportunities in the City of Stockholm, Sweden. It first analyses socio-economic trends and the environmental performance of the city and the county of Stockholm; then it reviews urban policies for land use, transport, buildings, waste, energy and water that contribute to economic...
This report seeks to document international best practices in adopting green growth strategies. It explores why some countries decide to pursue a green growth path and how they transition to such a pathway. For many countries, green growth presents an attractive opportunity to achieve poverty reduction, environmental protection, and economic...
Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios Chile is a government-driven analysis of scenarios and options for mitigation across different sectors of the country’s economy. It is an exploratory and non-binding exercise supported by extensive stakeholder engagement.
Several different approaches to scenario assessment were used to provide the evidence base for prioritising low-carbon actions as part of Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan and its emerging green economy strategy.
Climate Innovation Centers (CICs) are an important initiative of the World Bank Group’s Climate Technology Program. The first CIC opened in Kenya in 2012 with the aim of providing “incubation, capacity building services and financing to Kenyan entrepreneurs and new ventures that are developing innovative solutions in energy, water and...
Energy security is central to the green growth policy of the Government of India. In 2005, the government commissioned The Energy and Resources Institute to undertake a study of technological options for achieving the desired growth rate under various scenarios. Using the MARKAL (Market Allocation) model, the study was carried...
France’s regional climate, air, and energy plans seek to guide climate and energy policy in the 26 French regions through 2020 and 2050.