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The GGKP along with the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and over 60 other organisations have published the "Paris Summary Statement on Inclusive Green Economy Learning". 

This...

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The newest issue of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform's Knowledge Update has just been published and can be accessed online here.

In this issue you can read about:

  • The GGKP newly launched Green Growth and Law Research Committee and the Inclusiveness Research Committee.
  • The OECD report, 'The Economic Consequences...
Events News

More than 100 individuals from over 60 institutions gathered at the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning to discuss global and national approaches to green economy learning and explore opportunities to exchange knowledge and collaborate with the goals of up-scaling green economy learning.

Participants in the forum included policy-makers...

GGKP News
The GGKP has launched a new Research Committee on the topic of Inclusiveness, drawing together 18 leading global experts to explore the social consequences and benefits of implementing green growth strategies.
Projects News

Preserving the climate has emerged as perhaps the most important issue facing not only developing countries, but also the entire planet. The Republic of Korea learned valuable sustainability lessons through its journey from low-income country in the 1960s to one of the world’s most prosperous emerging economies. In September, 2011...

GGKP News

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform launched a new research committee during the World Bank’s Law, Justice and Development Week in Washington D.C. on 19 November 2015.  The committee Green Growth and the Law will focus on identifying critical knowledge and data gaps related to the ways rule of law and...

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The GGKP released a series of six working papers on "Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition". The papers cover a range of fiscal topics important to informing the transition to a green economy, such as fiscal reform, water security, environmental taxation in transport, low-carbon technology innovation and more.
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Today the United Nations Environment Programme launched the Executive Summary of its Emissions Gap report.  The Emissions Gap reports have been released in advance of the COP climate summits since COP15 in 2009 in Copenhagen.

Jacqueline McGlade, UNEP’s Chief Scientist, explained that this year UNEP has undergone analysis of...

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A series of country studies on green fiscal policy reforms have been undertaken in Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius and Mozambique. The studies were commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of its fiscal policy work stream and were undertaken in partnership with international and national research institutes.
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Events News
Laura Diaz Anadon, discusses in a Q&A with the GGKP, recent interdisciplinary research that highlights new insights on the impacts of various policies on advancing energy innovation.