The Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) has now been released. This new GGEI is an assessment of how 80 countries and 50 cities perform in the global green economy, as well as how experts evaluate that performance. The GGEI provides an integrated view of national green performance, measuring emissions, the...
The concluding session during the GGKP annual meeting highlighted and synthesized the major insights, ideas and proposals raised during the two day conference. Professor Edwin Muchapondwa, UCT, represented EfD in the panel discussion since EfD was partner to GGGI in organizing the academic program.
Inclusive green growth will not happen...
The latest issue of “Green Growth the Nordic Way” is published and focuses on Green Footprints. In the new issue, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic embassies in France present a number of green solutions – both from the public and private sector.
The magazine features an introduction...
From the 6-7 September 2016, the GGKP held it's Fourth Annual Conference on the theme of 'Transforming Development through Inclusive Green Growth' on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea.
During the conference over 30 research papers were presented, debated and discussed, and participants heard from close to 100 speakers. This...
Dr Byela Tibesigwa, of EfD Tanzania, was awarded best research paper during the closing ceremony at the GGKP annual conference that took place September 6-7, Jeju Island , Republic of Korea.
Byela Tibesigwa presented the "Small-holder farming, food security and climate change in South Africa: Male-female and urban-rural...
Today, as part of the Fourth GGKP Annual Conference on the theme of, 'Transforming Development through Inclusive Green Growth', two awards were presented for the Best Young Researcher Paper and Best Overall Paper.
The first award for the Best Young Researcher Paper went to Daye Eom, Sgouris Sgouridis and Scott Kennedy for the...
The Fourth Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference was held from 6-7 September 2016, focusing on the theme of, 'Transforming Development through Inclusive Green Growth'. From 6-7 September 2016, top academics joined key policy makers through a mix of 26 plenary debates and parallel sessions to jointly examine newly developed...
The OECD has welcomed the release by China and the United States of peer reviews of their fossil fuel subsidies.
The ground-breaking voluntary peer review mechanism, first applied to the world’s two largest economies, aims to pave the way for widespread reform across G20 countries of inefficient public support to...
Today the GGKP hosted a workshop for its Knowledge Partners. This workshop represented the third in-person workshop of Knowledge Partners convened by the GGKP.
As with the last workshop, the discussions focused on maximizing the impact of the GGKP partnership by building on the breadth and depth of experience...
The GGKP is celebrating an important milestone for the initiative as it now has 50 Knowledge Partners!
This is an important achievment for the GGKP as the Fourth Annual Conference is quickly approaching, we can now reflect on just how far the network has come since its foundation in 2012...