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The GGSD Forum 2017 Greening the Ocean Economy Summary Report is now available.

Established in 2012, the Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum is the main annual green growth event at the OECD. The GGSD Forum provides a space for multidisciplinary dialogue on key cross-cutting issues on the green...

The German Development Institute - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has issued a call for papers for the Green Transformation and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Developing Countries conference, to be held in Bonn, Germany, 18-19 June 2018.

The 11th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Energy Economics will be held in Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)’s premises in the Palazzo delle Stelline (Milan, Italy) on 14-15 June 2018. This workshop follows the tradition of successful predecessors held in Zurich, Switzerland (2008), Jasper, Canada (2009), Guilford, England...

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is pleased to announce the launch of the new Working Group on Natural Capital. The group held its first workshop on 30 November-1 December 2017, in the wake of the Fifth GGKP Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

The International Support Network for African Development (ISNAD-Africa) hereby invites applications for its Mentoring for Research Programme (MRP) from students pursuing various doctoral, master's and bachelor's degree programmes in African Universities. The mentoring programme is being implemented as an initiative of ISNAD-Africa to help Africa raise a new generation of...

From 27-28 November 2017, the GGKP held its Fifth Annual Conference on the theme of Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington, DC. 

In almost 20 sessions, over 80 speakers from leading universities, research and financial institutions, government and the private sector explored some of the most critical questions on how to design, promote and...

International Climate Policy (ICP) is a bi-monthly magazine published by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), covering trends around international and domestic climate and energy policies, as well as carbon markets.

New research from a team of Oxford economists launched at the World Forum on Natural Capital in Edinburgh shows that Ministries of Finance and Treasuries are often blind to how dependent economies are on nature, which is declining at a dangerous rate. As a result, businesses and politicians are failing to register the systemic risk building up as the natural world fails.

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is proud to welcome the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health as a new partner in green growth knowledge. The Council champions the field of planetary health – a new, multi-disciplinary approach to health and well-being that brings together scientific knowledge of human and ecosystem health with knowledge around economic trends, market behaviour, and policy-making.

Despite the risks that war and armed conflict pose for the environment and the role that natural resources may play in fueling or amplifying armed conflicts, there are also significant opportunities linking the environment and peacebuilding. UN Environment and partners are pleased to announce a new massive open online course on environmental security and sustaining peace.