The Ministry of Population and Environment (MoPE) is leading the national process to identify and prioritise medium and long-term adaptation actions. This document, National Adaptation Plan Formulation Process: Approach paper, describes the MoPE's approaches to the preparation of the National Adaptation Plan.
Financing climate change development needs, which are increasingly demanding more financial resources, is as much a challenge as developing both short- as well as long-term programmes for effective climate adaptation and mitigation. Several issues from securing globally available funds to channelling it to various programs transparently and to the highest...
The government of Jordan is currently supporting various policies, initiatives and programmes aimed at achieving a green economy, such as: the complete removal of subsidies for oil in 2008; the adoption of the renewable energy law and fiscal incentive package on renewable energy and energy efficiency equipment in 2010; and...
As part of the PAGE inception phase and a broader stocktaking exercise, ILO has committed to undertake a green jobs mapping study, a mapping study on the employment aspects of greening the economy of Mongolia was commissioned. This mapping study will contribute to a broader stocktaking exercise meant to provide...
The National Council on Green Growth (NCGG) becomes a fundamental mechanism in contribution to the implementation of the Global Green Economy Principles focusing on environment protection, economic development and poverty reduction approved by the United Nations in Rio+20 Conferences in Brazil in June 2012. Today, Cambodia takes the lead and...
Greening Our Economy - Achieving a Sustainable Future presents Malta’s commitment to green growth – a short to medium term strategy and action plan. It seeks to contextualise the nature of the Green Economy and has the purpose of bringing together all necessary objectives and actions towards a green economy...
Guyana has already started to take action to build resilience to change impacts and to enhance capacities to adapt. Indeed, the Government of Guyana (GoG) is committed to a green economy to sustain economic prosperity, environmental security and social well-being. Policies which support this vision include the Low Carbon Development...
In recognition of the need for global action to combat climate change, Guyana became a Non-Annex I party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in June 1992, and has since made significant progress in the implementation of the Convention's principles to combat global climate change. In 2002...
This document is the third draft of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). It reflects the outcome of almost a year of review and consultation within Guyana, coupled with input from climate change negotiations at the United Nations, and other international climate change initiatives. The document sets out Guyana’s strategy...
In 2009, the former President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, set out a vision to forge a new low carbon economy in Guyana over the coming decade. The vision was translated into a national strategy as outlined in Guyana‟s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) - after over a year of review...