Background
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been escalating greenhouse gas emissions, sprawling urban development and local environmental impacts, as well as disparities in income, education levels and job opportunities in urban populations.
Key information about natural capital is missing or invisible in the System of National Accounts (SNA), and in SNA-based indicators, such as GDP. Under-valuation of natural capital and the lack of integration of these values in policy decisions have been identified as two of the main causes of environmental and natural resource degradation (MA 2005).
As part of the Fifth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, the GGKP hosted a policy session on the topic of: "Moving Beyond GDP - Measuring Inclusive Green Growth".
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), is organizing a technical workshop on “Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies for an Inclusive Green Economy”. The workshop is scheduled to take place on April 28-29, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) hosted a lunchtime side event on 6 December, 2013 as aprt of the OECD’s Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum.
This session aimed to:
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), also known as the Fund, was conceived at a UN conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, in July 1944. The 44 countries at that conference sought to build a framework for economic cooperation to avoid a repetition of the competitive devaluations that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership is convening its third annual global workshop from August 27-29, 2014. The event will bring together leading officials and practitioners from countries and international institutions to share lessons and strengthen cooperation on climate-resilient low emission development around the world.
The inaugural session of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will be held from 7 to 9 May 2014 at the United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. Discussions will align with the theme of the HLPF (currently proposed as “Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and charting the way for an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals”).
This conference, organized by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Tsinghua University, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and the German Development Institute (die), is the final conference from the international research project "Technological trajectories for low carbon development in China, Europe and India", generously funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond under a joint call with Volkswagen Foundation and Compagnia de San Paolo.
The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) 2014 is the first green summit in the Middle East and North Africa region and will be held under the leadership of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE).
The summit will bring together the world’s leaders, united in pursuing a sustainable future for humanity in order to forge global partnerships among leading players in the world that can drive the transition to a green economy.