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A new report released by the African Development Bank (AfDB) highlights how investments in green growth can be advantageous to economic growth in Africa. The report, issued as part of the eleventh volume of “Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators on African Countries,” shows how green growth in Africa will provide...

LEI Wageningen has released a report on “The social dimensions of green growth in the Republic of Macedonia”, analyzing the social dimensions of the country’s green growth strategy using a Participatory Scenario Development (PSD) methodology. The report provides a summary of the major challenges faced by the Republic of Macedonia...

UNEP and the European Patent Office have released a study which aims at providing facts and evidence to evaluate the actual situation concerning patenting of clean energy technology in Africa. The study "Patents and Clean Energy Technologies in Africa" provides a mapping of Africa's clean energy potential, outlines policies and...

Governments each year spend around half a trillion dollars on fossil fuel subsidies – a huge expense that pulls investment away from other budget priorities that might more directly help the poor. Is it time to reduce or eliminate them? How might that happen, and how could the political obstacles be overcome? What difference could lower fossil fuel subsidies make to poverty levels? In this session, the experts take your questions.

This report by the OECD presents a case study on Cambodia designed to answer key development planning questions, including whether inclusive, green growth presents a viable way forward. The case study draws on several sources of information to compile a "snapshot" of the situation today. In particular, qualitative information was...

This paper by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme presents the results of a study measuring green growth in the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). The study pays particular attention to the challenges of measuring the transition to a low-carbon economy in cross-border areas as...

The Green Growth Best Practices initiative will host a series of webinars the week of October 7th to discuss their Draft Assessment Results.  The Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP) initiative is a project that is engaging 75 authors around the world in evaluating effective practices with green growth planning, analysis...

This report by the OECD highlights the range of expected changes in the water cycle and the challenge of making practical, on-site adaptation decisions for water. It offers policymakers a risk-based approach to better "know", "target" and "manage" water risks and proposes policy guidelines to prioritize action and improve the...

A new study, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Energy & Environmental Science, identifies which conditions are most important to China’s price advantage in silicon solar panels and assesses whether they can be reproduced elsewhere. The study finds that manufacturing scale and supply-chain advantages are the main driving...

A new working paper from the World Bank provides a framework to assess the desirability of green industrial policies, focusing on the effectiveness and political acceptability of price instruments. The paper provides a brief review of the lessons of past industrial policies; makes the case for green industrial policies, arguing...