The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) is one of the leading global forums on the green economy. It brings together world-class experts in critical sectors from around the world to directly focus on advancing the global green economy and sustainability agenda, achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the recommendations of COP21 & 22.
The new OECD report Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth shows that integrating measures to tackle climate change into regular economic policy will have a positive impact on economic growth over the medium and long term.
A climate-friendly policy package can increase long-run output by up to 2.8% on average across the G20 by 2050 and if avoided climate damage are also taken into account, this rises to nearly 5%.
EXPO has been bringing together the world’s innovators for over 150 years, to demonstrate science and technology developments for the public to be inspired and for businesses to be discovered. EXPO is a global event that aims at educating the public, promoting progress and fostering cooperation through interactive exhibitions, live shows, workshops, conferences and more. It is the world’s largest meeting place of countries, the private sector, the civil society and the general public.
The international forum ‘Economy for a Living Planet’ will bring together national policymakers, international economists and sustainable development experts and business and public sector leaders from Europe and Asia.
This forum will offer possible solutions on how a multilateral world can successfully transition to a green economy, navigate the current multitude of political and economic crises, and ensure attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Last year’s historic Paris Agreement and the overall trend to include climate change in the sustainable development agenda have set the direction for a broader global climate action. In line with these new developments, the World Bank Group will launch “Innovate4Climate - Finance & Markets Week” in Barcelona, Spain from May 22-26, 2017.
2017 Annual meeting of the GREEN Action Task Force
- Date: 26-27 October 2017
- Place: Rixos Hotel in Almaty, Kazakhstan (see the address).
The meeting will review the progress made in greening the economies of the EECCA region.
Has world economic growth become “safer” over the last few decades? Have social problems become more manageable or are we condemned to live in a world with increasing inequity? Can Europe, the first “sovereignty sharing” experiment among nation states, survive, or will it become a nail in the coffin of international cooperation?
Insights from the behavioural sciences – behavioural insights – can help policy makers obtain a deeper understanding of the behavioural mechanisms that contribute to environmental problems, and design and implement more effective policy interventions.
How have behavioural insights been used by governments to tackle environmental problems and which behavioural interventions have been shown to work in practice?
Context
The Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement have brought considerable focus on poverty reduction and climate change. Central to both poverty and climate, yet receiving much less attention is natural capital: life on land (SDG 15) and life in the water (SDG 14).
11 MAY: OECD-TEN CONFERENCE: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY
Being Green, Consumer Centric and with well-Functioning Markets and Organisations
Behavioural insights are being used by public bodies around the world. How can the behavioural community support these efforts and what are lessons from the field? The conference will discuss these issues and also look at how policy officials can benefit from current experience and research in the following topics: