
“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...
- 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...
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...
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...
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...