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A new discussion paper, "South-originating green finance: Exploring the options",  published by the Geneva International Finance Dialogues highlights the key role that is being, and could increasingly be, played by South-originating green finance (SGF) in an evolving financial landscape, given the pressing need to scale green investment, and the potential for national...
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“Effective Carbon Prices”, a new book from the OECD shows that taxes and emission trading systems are the cheapest way for societies to reduce CO2 emissions. The book estimates the costs to society of reducing CO2 emissions in 15 countries using a range of policy instruments. It finds wide variations...

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A new working paper from the World Bank , "Green Industrial Policies: How and When", 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...
GGKP News
The newest issues of the GGKP Knowledge Update is now available. This issue includes:
  • A new GGKP Insights post on the upcoming Global Green Growth Forum 2013;
  • Examples of green growth implementation in Cambodia, Egypt, Sierra Leone and India;
  • Research from the OECD on water, climate change and adaptation decisions;
  • Results from...
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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 at: http://conta.cc/1cK5Omy

In this issue you can read about:

  • The African Development Bank’s African Development Report 2012 which explores the need to integrate green growth in Africa’s development process;
  • A...
Events News

The GGKP is organizing a number of events at this year’s Global Green Growth Summit, including a session on measuring progress on green growth and a side event on green growth knowledge management. In addition, summit participants can pass by the GGKP exhibition booth at any time over the two...

Events News

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...

GGKP News

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:...

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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...

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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...