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The Second Page Academy on the Green Economy will take place from 3 to 14 October 2016 in Turin, Italy. The Academy is organized within the framework of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), involing the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Development...

This course will assist users to plan, design and implement these policy instruments to help spur their country into a low emissions development path.

This interactive e-learning course aims to improve the understanding of ‘green jobs’ key concepts and definitions as part of the contribution of the world of work to sustainable development, through a review of tools, selected literature and on-going practices. Special attention is given to the approaches of the ILO Green...

The overall objective of this course is to provide a conceptual and strategic framework for the promotion of green jobs at the national level, by focusing on the social and employment dimensions of the green economy.

Interview series exploring climate compatible development and the future of sustainable development.

This video introduces viewers to the concept of green entrepeneurship. The video acts as an online training manual, teaching entrepeneurs what green entrepeurship entails and how it can be achieved.

This guide provides methodological and operational guidance on value chain approaches to development.

The Climate-Smart Planning Platform provides countries and individual users with the opportunity to gather and share information on the application of climate-resilient and low-carbon development tools.

Good practices and lessons learned on issues such as carbon pricing, subsidy reform and fuel taxes to address environmental concerns.

The feasibility of green growth is studied in the context of climate change. As carbon emissions are easier to quantify than many other types of environmental pressure, it will be possible to reach a more definite conclusion about the likelihood of green growth than has been possible in the long-standing historical debate on growth versus the environment. This paper calculates the rate of decoupling between gross domestic product (GDP) and GHG emissions needed to achieve internationally agreed climate targets. Next, eight arguments are considered that together suggest that fast decoupling will be very difficult. Subsequently, this study examines the main lines of research used by proponents of green growth to support their viewpoint, including theoretical arguments, exercises with integrated assessment models, and studies of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. It will be concluded that decoupling as a main or single strategy to combine economic and environmental aims should be judged as taking a very large risk with our common future. To minimize this risk we need to seriously consider reducing our dependence on growth.