The partner organisations of “Cities and Climate Change Science Conference: Fostering new scientific knowledge for cities based on science, practice and policy” are pleased to announce a call for proposals for sessions and abstracts. The conference will take place from 5 to 7 March 2018 in Edmonton, Canada (for more...
The global momentum towards green growth as a strategy for decarbonizing key economic sectors such as energy has driven relevant transformative processes in both developed and emerging economies.
Energy transition points towards a low-carbon pathway to achieve sound economic growth in a sustainable way, while at the same time ensuring...
Many countries have become more efficient in using natural resources and the services provided by the environment, generating more economic output per unit of carbon emitted and of energy or raw materials consumed. Yet progress is too slow, and if emissions embodied in international trade are included, advances in environmental...
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) has released a new working paper on, 'Analysis of Existing Environmental Policy Databases'. The working paper explores 24 databases that provide information on environmental policies implemented by national governments.
The review of each database summarises the type of information provided, the breadth of...
Despite an increasingly connected and online world, face-to-face interactions are still indispensable in this day and age. This is especially true of the gargantuan gatherings at world fairs, which originated in Europe as an outcome of industrialisation.
In 1851, London hosted the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of...
Following up on member States’ pledges to green their economies and to improve air quality across the region at the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, Georgia, last year, member States this week discussed progress in the implementation of these commitments and their relevance for the Sustainable Development...
The interplay between trade and the environment is one of the most puzzling institutional interactions at the international level. While one might wrongly presume that these two sets of institutions are in frequent opposition as each have adverse consequences for the other, they often seem to co-evolve in the international...
