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...
The MAVA Foundation is launching a call for proposals to build public sector expertise in preparing, procuring, de-risking and financing sustainable infrastructure projects.
The MAVA Foundation will award one grant each, to two different recipients. Each grant will be of the value CHF 500,000. We seek proposals that cover 2...
Last week as part of the Second PAGE Ministerial Conference, the GGKP organised several private one-to-one meetings between Green Growth Experts and Policymakers.
The aim of organising these meetings was to enable a transfer and sharing of green growth knowledge between leading experts and high-level policymakers and government officials. Experts...
Tim Flannery, the acclaimed Australian scientist, explorer and conservationist is a Segré Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor. Professor Flannery, who is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, was previously Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission.
Tim Flannery will be giving a public...
In Kibera, Africa’s second-largest informal settlement, located in Kenya, researchers were puzzling over the low uptake of a water purification solution. This was a place where water-borne diseases were rampant and sometimes lethal, so why didn’t more residents buy this simple, cheap answer to a chronic health threat?
Even after...
An innovation campaign in the lead-up to the PAGE Ministerial Conference 27-28 March 2017, Berlin, Germany
Call for Pitches
14 February 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – The Second Ministerial Conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), co-hosted by the Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety...
WWF are calling for proposals for a scoping study to identify options for modelling of the potential global socio-economic impacts of future changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services
WWF-UK wishes to appoint a consultant or consortium to undertake a scoping study to identify options for modelling the potential global socio-economic...
Whether in paint used at home on walls, or even covering children’s toys, lead paint can in many countries be more present in our daily lives than we realise.
The heavy metal affects multiple body systems and is particularly harmful to young children, provoking intellectual disabilities in 600,000 children* each...