The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department of Sustainable Development, operates the Regional Secretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean (RS-LAC) of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). At Microgerar 2013 (http://microgerar2013.blogspot.com/2013/07/english.html), OAS will present the activities of REEEP in Latin America and the...
Last month, the Organization of American States and the Dirección Ejecutiva Nacional de Honduras del Plan Trifinio held the Fourth Edition of their international course "Design and Implementation of Payments for Environmental Service Schemes" and a series of events aimed at building capacity for the design and implementation of Payments...
Photo coverage of the GGKP’s first regional practitioners’ workshop, held in Bogor Indonesia is now available online. The workshop provided technical experts from developing country governments in Asia with the opportunity to learn about various green growth policy tools and share experiences on green growth planning and implementation. All materials...
The Meeting Report of the Asia LEDS Forum 2013: Putting LEDS into Practice, has just been released. The Asia LEDS Forum was held October 1-4, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. The meeting report includes brief summaries or highlights of the various Forum sessions, including plenary remarks, panel discussions, concurrent session presentations...
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform is hiring a Research Officer to lead the GGKP's research efforts, including managing the GGKP's research committees, engaging with partner organizations and research funders, and producing high-quality, timely through pieces and synthesis of major green growth research. For more information and to apply, please visit:...
The Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), in collaboration with the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have released a publication on Egypt’s green economy success stories. The selected case studies demonstrate opportunities and challenges facing green initiatives...
The Graduate Institute’s Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) has begun a CHF 2.5 million, three-year research programme to investigate how economic growth can be made consistent with environmental objectives.
The research programme will examine the incentives and impacts available to increase the use of wind and solar energy; hybrid...