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The GGKP and GIZ's Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative are requesting proposals for partners in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kyrgyzstan to engage local stakeholders, support data collection, and apply a new methodology to restore terrestrial natural capital to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The deadline to respond is 31 May 2019.

The Seventh GGKP Annual Conference will be hosted by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) on the theme of “Achieving Global Green Energy Transformation” on 22 October 2019. The GGKP and managing partners have issued a call for paper contributions on important challenges, insights, and innovations and solutions for dramatically scaling up sustainable energy.

The 30th Pacific Islands Environment Conference (PIEC) will be held on 23-28 June 2019 on the theme of “Greening Growth in the Pacific.” The conference agenda will focus on the urgency for creating green growth and building a green economy on Guam and the Pacific region.

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is calling for applications to the P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership Awards 2019. The awards celebrates the world’s most innovative public-private partnerships that have achieved measurable success in five focus areas: food and agriculture, water, energy, cities, and the circular economy. The winners from each sector and the 2019 partnership of the year will be announced at a high-level P4G award luncheon in New York City on 23 September 2019 on the sidelines of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019.

Today, at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Finance Ministers from more than twenty countries launched a new coalition aimed at driving stronger collective action on climate change and its impacts. The newly formed Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action endorsed a set of six common principles, known as the “Helsinki Principles,” that promote national climate action, especially through fiscal policy and the use of public finance.

A new environmental classification system is the first to fully categorise both the renewable and non-renewable resources that provide benefits to people and the economy. This depth of information will provide a consistent ‘language’ for decision makers at all levels in the public and private sectors to consistently manage nature, as well as the services it provides.

Applied Energy has issued a call for papers that focus on methods to measure to what extent countries can industrialize while developing a sustainable energy sector and improving inclusiveness. The paper will feature in a special issue of the journal on "Inclusive and sustainable industrial development and measurement approaches for energy transformation". The deadline to submit manuscripts is 30 September 2019.

On 25 March, experts gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Africa surrounding the energy-development nexus. Energy choices made today will have long-term consequences on Africa's future economic development and environmental standing, and making the best choices will require more cooperation and cohesion than currently present.

How can governments optimize the value of infrastructure spending for taxpayers? A new tool for Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) helps governments and investors price the environmental, social and economic value of sustainable infrastructure projects. Experts gathered to present and discuss early first-hand experiences with the application of the tool at a recent event in Geneva.

New research showing how billions of dollars in climate finance can be used more effectively and reach more of the people it is supposed to, is released as governments, financiers and organisations meet in Nairobi, Kenya for the One Planet Summit (14 March 2019).