The paper Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the G20: Progress, Challenges, and Ways Forward analyses progress and challenges to implementing the G20’s commitment and outlines policy options for G20 policymakers, drawing upon the international trade framework as a means to overcome current implementation deadlocks.
The International Journal on Green Growth and Development is an effort to stir a debate around emerging ‘green’ concepts and development. The publication aims at building knowledge through stakeholder engagement on policy-relevant issues to understand the many facets of green growth and development.
The Green Economy Progress (GEP) Measurement Framework helps countries evaluate their overall progress towards an Inclusive Green Economy and to enable a cross-country comparison of progress. This report presents an application of the GEP Framework that tests its main implications at the global level.
Industrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them. For the extractive industries this development poses a challenge.
Importing countries claim commodities as the raw materials that fuel industrial economies. By contrast, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) claim their natural resources as a rare source of wealth on which to base their development strategies.
This report captures Poverty-Environment Initiative's 2016 achievements, as we gather the fruits of a more than decade-long effort to sow environmental sustainability into the field of development. It graphically highlights the work of the joint UNDP–UN Environment Programme global programme to improve climate resilience of the poorest and to effectively implement pro-poor environment practices and a just transition to a green economy and presents the kernel of a more effective means to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.