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Green growth is an imperative for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Yet many key stakeholders remain to be convinced. How can we persuade policymakers of the urgency of pursuing economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially equitable?

The Roadmap for Green Competitiveness in the Norwegian Financial Sector, developed by Finance Norway, the country’s association of financial institutions comprising banks, insurers, investment firms and pension providers, sets the vision of a profitable and sustainable Norwegian financial sector in 2030.

A new report released today offers a ground-breaking platform to evaluate the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of our agriculture and food systems. This Scientific and Economic Foundations Report provides the basis for a major paradigm shift in how we view and manage our agriculture and food systems, demonstrating how to evaluate not just the visible but also the hidden costs and benefits.

A new report by UN Environment examines the state of plastic pollution in 2018, offering the first comprehensive global assessment of government action against plastic pollution. The analysis features best practices and lessons learned from cases studies on single-use bans, levies and other forms of government intervention. UN experts suggest a ten-step roadmap for policymakers.

The Sixth GGKP Annual Conference will be hosted by the OECD on the theme of “Inclusive Solutions for the Green Transition: Competitiveness, jobs and social dimensions” on 27-29 November 2018. The GGKP and founding partners call for paper contributions on aspects of the political economy of the green transition, particularly the competitiveness impacts and distributional consequences of environmental policies, employment implications, green industrial policy, sectoral/structural transition management and more.

The African Development Bank and the Global Green Growth Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday, May 25 on the sidelines of the African Development Bank Group’s Annual Meetings in Busan, to promote programs, projects, joint studies and research activities to accelerate green growth options for African countries.

Do you know of a great solution to advance sustainable consumption and sustainable ways of living? Are you involved in a sustainable lifestyles project or initiative? The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and One Earth is inviting you to share examples of sustainable ways of living for a global project.

On 17-19 October the Sixth Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Cliamte Sciences (SISC) is taking place at the Scientific Campus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. It will focus on the theme of "Recent trends in climate sciences, adaptation and mitigation”.

For the first time, new research has quantified the opportunities of the green economy in Mongolia. If just 4% of GDP were invested for green development, by 2030 Mongolia could generate 30% more real GDP per capita; accelerate poverty reduction by two thirds; cut unemployment by an additional 2% and cut greenhouse gas emissions by almost 20%.

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) has released the first issue of the EAERE Magazine — an outlet for new research, projects, and other professional news, featuring articles that can contribute to recent policy discussions and developments in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. It will be published quarterly in the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.