The aim of this Green Economy Scoping Study: Ghana is to identify how Ghana can transition to a green economy. The study focuses on agriculture (cocoa and fisheries); forestry and logging; and industry (electricity, water and sewage) as initial sectors for greening the economy in Ghana.
The Industrial Development Report 2013 examines the role of structural change and employment and explores the underlying drivers of structural change in manufacturing. While manufacturing employment is growing in developing countries, its decrease in developed countries is being mitigated by the rise in manufacturing-related services employment. The food and beverages and textiles and garments industries offer least developed countries tremendous potential for industrialization, whereas high-tech industries hold numerous opportunities for developed countries to invest and innovate and to thus sustain jobs. The impact of the critical drivers of structural change and industrialization—namely costs, technology, demand and resource efficiency—to sustain employment hinges on the industrial policies adopted. These must therefore be geared towards the structural transformation of the economy and will only be effective if the policy-making process plays as important a role as the policy content.
This paper reviewed systematically practices and progresses of international and domestic emission trading policy in China during the past two decades, and concluded that emission trading is broadly used in the air pollutants reduction in USA, and the global carbon reduction with better effects, the emission trading policy exploration in China could be roughly divided into three stages: Initial Development stage (1988-2000), Piloting exploration stage (2001-2006), Deepening Piloting stage (2007-). Also, nine characteristics of the current emission trading practice in China were concluded and six key issues influencing the advancement of emission trading piloting were identified and discussed. And lastly, the paper proposed the pilot roadmap for implementation of the emission trading, and pointed out that efforts in the near future should focus on the construction of “six systems”, that are key technical supporting system, fair and reasonable allocation system of the emission permit, emission trading market system, laws and regulations system, pollution source monitoring and management system, and law enforcement and supervision system.
This report presents an effort by Statistics Netherlands, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Sustainability Consortium to collaborate and examine alignment of their respective national, company, and product level sustainable development metrics. The report argues that continued alignment is undoubtedly desirable and makes several suggestions for achieving it. It predicts that general movement towards alignment will accelerate in the short term, in line with the new post-2015 sustainable development process, but recognises that completion of a truly shared sustainable development metric must be viewed as a long term goal.
The authors highlight the huge enthusiasm for measuring, while emphasizing the importance of recognising the direct trade-off between ‘materiality’ and ‘comparability’ in a given measurement framework. They also find that products and companies are much more heterogeneous than nations. The report concludes that alignment and harmonisation between framework levels is crucial, but there is a limit.
In this publication, CDKN and Climate Strategies present nine papers from leading climate change academics, policy-advisors and subject matter experts on some of the critical deadlocks hampering climate negotiations, and new economic, social and political ideas to move the debate forward. A number of papers within the publication touch on green growth, including the potential for green growth as a new narrative for climate action, experimental institutional restructuring to better realize “climate compatible development” and the implementation of green bonds to mobilize financial resources from the private sector.
Mountain socio-ecological systems produce valuable but complex ecosystem services resulting from biomes stratified by altitude and gravity. These systems are often managed and shaped by smallholders whose marginalization is exacerbated by uncertainties and a lack of policy attention. Human–environment interfaces in mountains hence require holistic policies. The authors analyse the potential of the Global Mountain Green Economy Agenda (GMGEA) in building awareness and thus prompting cross-sectoral policy strategies for sustainable mountain development. Considering the critique of the green economy presented at the Rio + 20 conference, the authors argue that the GMGEA can nevertheless structure knowledge and inform regional institutions about the complexity of mountain socio-ecological systems, a necessary pre-condition to prompt inter-agency collaboration and cross-sectoral policy formulation. The paper draws on two empirical cases in the Pakistani and Nepali Himalayas. In each case, it first shows that lack of awareness has led to a sequence of fragmented interventions with unanticipated, and unwanted, consequences for communities.