Since 2005, the United States has invested approximately US$ 87.2 million to fund the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) environmental cooperation. This funding is helping CAFTA-DR countries advance in the following four programmatic areas: (A) Institutional Strengthening for Effective Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Laws; (B) Biodiversity and Conservation; (C) Market-based Conservation; and (D) Improved Private Sector Performance.
In support of these areas, the Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA) (Article IV) requires that the Environmental Cooperation Commission (ECC) be responsible for examining and evaluating the cooperation activities under the Agreement. The ECA highlights as well that the ECC must also seek and consider input from relevant international organizations and other stakeholders regarding how best to ensure that it is accurately monitoring progress.
This paper argues that there are significant opportunities and challenges for promoting inclusive green growth in Africa without costly policy reversal. The paper demonstrates that inclusive green growth entails supporting growth that enhances human wellbeing, social equity and shared economic opportunities while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, minimizing inefficient use of natural resources and maintaining biodiversity among others. Strategy for inclusive green growth should integrate environmental, social and economic issues into development plans and policies and take a long-term view of these issues as interdependent issues rather than mutually exclusive ones.
The purpose of this paper Green growth in fisheries is to explain what green growth is and to develop a conceptual framework.
In a clean energy economy, green businesses play a central role by utilizing renewable energy technologies and employing green labor forces to provide clean energy services and goods. This paper aims at analyzing factors driving the growth and survival of green businesses in the U.S. states, with hypotheses proposed on the impacts from clean energy policies and tax incentives, labor market conditions, and economic and political environments. A fixed effect regression analysis is applied with a panel data set of 48 continental states from 1998 to 2007 in the United States. The statistical analysis with a longitudinal data set reveals that the adoption of renewable energy policies, the permission of renewable energy credits imports, the stringency of minimum wage legislations, and presence of clean energy business associations are the major driving forces of the green business development in the U.S. states.
This publication proposes a conceptual framework for the characterisation of green jobs in Malaysia and the selection of technical indicators in the environmental and labour fields to be used for this process. The report brings an initial estimation of direct green jobs at the country level as well as a review of the decent work challenges that may be linked to green jobs. The report provides information and statistical data to assess the economic and employment impacts of a green development strategy and provides information on the sectors which promote environmentally-friendly decent work. It includes policy recommendations for the government and social partners to identify entry points for further green job creation.
As emissions trading schemes (ETS) continue to emerge around the world, governments are starting to consider and implement linkages between their domestic schemes. This paper analyses the case for a link between the EU ETS and the upcoming South Korean ETS. The authors assess key features of the planned South Korean ETS to determine elements that have the potential to facilitate or prevent linkage. The paper draws on lessons from previous linkage examples and makes concrete policy recommendations for the South Korean case. The linkage debate is placed in the larger context of international cooperation on climate change.