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On 19 January 2023, Dr. Aaron Russell, Country Representative of GGGI Uzbekistan, met H.E. Mr. Aziz A. Abdukhakimov, Minister for Natural Resources in Uzbekistan.  

In the meeting, the GGGI team briefed H.E. Mr. Abdukhakimov on the organisation’s support of Uzbekistan's green growth as well as its comparative advantage, providing embedded...

The Private Adaptation Investment Bootcamp is looking for SMEs registered or operating in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda or Pakistan that offer climate adaptation and resilience solutions. Applications are open until 2 April 2023.

The technical report titled Developing Carbon Markets based on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Challenges and Opportunities presents GGGI’s and its Members’ experiences in Article 6 engagement, explores the needs and barriers to meaningful, equitable participation in carbon markets, and offers a solution through an innovative new GGGI initiative the Carbon Transaction Platform (CTP).

Amid the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the triple planetary crisis in Africa, entrepreneurs are faced with an urgent need to adopt eco-innovative and sustainable practices that improve resource efficiency across the different value chains. Not only are such sustainable consumption and production approaches key to more...

UNEP and Global Fashion Agenda launched a consultation process for a proposed set of unified fashion industry targets at COP27. Take part in this online survey to add your voice.

The International Panel on Behavior Change is calling on experts from different behavioral sciences disciplines to contribute to a report on drivers of behavioral change and non-change in ecological transition issues.

The Green Finance Platform has developed a set of tools to help create an enabling environment to bring credibility and accountability to sustainable finance commitments. This includes the launch of the Sustainable Finance Diagnostic Toolkit and the updated Green Finance Measures Database, which support financial policymakers to mobilize sustainable finance drivers tailored to their country context.

Over the last year, the Green Policy Platform has pushed forward the knowledge frontier on nature-positive economies, strengthened its regional work in Africa, been on the forefront of mainstreaming natural capital in finance, and begun to focus on tackling the third pillar of the triple planetary crisis – pollution. Discover the highlights of 2022.

The Green Industry Platform team outlines their key activities and achievements in 2022, featuring the I-GO Assistant and I-GO Network.

In the global fight against pollution there is always room for innovation, especially when the innovators themselves perceive the steady deterioration of the environment around them.  To seek out new ideas to address problems associated with the disposal of hazardous materials such as end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), electrical and electronic waste (e-waste), plastic and manufacturing waste, among others, the Innovation Lab of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Lab, in collaboration with ISLANDS, launched the Blue Tech for Waste innovation challenge earlier this year in the Caribbean region.