GGKP News
The newest issue of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform's Knowledge Update has just now been released and can be accessed here. This month's issue includes updates on:
- GGKP and TERI release journal focused on green fiscal reform. Topics covered include environmental taxation in transport, conceptual frameworks for measuring the effectiveness of green fiscal reform, fiscal policy instruments to accelerate innovation in renewable energy, obstacles to green fiscal reform, and fiscal consideration in the design of green tax reform.
- UNEP have release the report, 'Multiple Pathways to Sustainable Development: Further Evidence of Sustainability in Practice'. This report examines four approaches to sustainable development that have been adopted at the country or regional level.
- The OECD has released the report, 'Effective Carbon Rates: Pricing CO2 through Taxes and Emissions Trading Systems'. his report presents the first full analysis of the use of carbon pricing on energy in 41 OECD and G20 economies, covering 80% of global energy use and CO2 emissions.
- Applied Energy has released the special issue, 'Towards a Green Energy Economy? Assessing policy choices, strategies and transitional pathways'. This issue has been published as open access and seeks to bring together the fields of green growth, environmental economics, energy, climate change, innovation and governance.
- Dual Citizen has released the 5th edition of the, 'Global Green Economy Index' (GGEI). The GGEI is a data-driven analysis of how 80 countries and 50 cities perform in the global green economy.
- The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) has released the paper, 'The Green Economy Barometer 2016'. Since 2010 the GEC has been tracking the transition to green economies by drawing on the experiences and insights of GEC members and gathering different perspectives from different regions.
- The Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) has released the paper, 'Success Factors in Green Growth Partnerships - Mindsets, skillsets and contexts'. This paper has been written to help catalyse green growth partnerships and draws on emerging findings from the 3GF which has over 30 collaborative partnerships under its umbrella.
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