Project Database
The GGKP Project Database allows you to browse on-the-ground initiatives to promote green growth, being led by our partners and other leading organisations. To suggest a project to be added to the database, please complete the form.
SwitchMed is an EU-funded initiative fostering Sustainable Consumption and Production patterns in the Southern Mediterranean and stimulating the creation of new greener business opportunities and decent employment while reducing the environmental footprint of consumption and production activities.
This project Eco-Industrial Park Initiative for Sustainable Industrial Zones in Vietnam: Inclusive and sustainable industrial development aims to transform the Industrial Zones (IZ) into eco-industrial parks through shared services (transportation, monitoring of emissions) and infrastructures (biogas plant, wastewater treatment) between companies and the local community.
Project Overview Budget: USD 4.5...
Development in India is shaped by rapidly advancing industrialization. The Government of India has a vision to increase the manufacturing sector’s contribution to the GDP to reach 25% over the course of a decade. 100 million new jobs are to be created in the sector. Currently, there are nearly 3,000 designated industrial zones in India such as the industrial corridors, investment regions and manufacturing zones which are of enormous dimensions.
The programme aims at developing the capacities of governmental institutions to regulate the use of water resources and provide advisory services to the sector, e.g. by showcasing the economic benefits of water efficiency measures for companies. In doing so, the efficient use of water resources of the textile industry is enhanced and resilience to climate-induced water scarcity strengthened.
The GIZ Working Group on Sustainable Industrial Areas (SIA) was established in 2006. Members of the Working Group are GIZ experts who are involved in related projects that contribute – despite thematic differences – to the overall objective Eco-Industrial Development (EID).
The SIA WG, representing GIZ projects currently working worldwide...
In Mexico, the pollution created within cities and by the industrial sector is currently estimated to cost the economy almost seven per cent of its gross domestic product due to the environmental damage it causes. Largely unsustainable consumer behaviour and environmentally unfriendly manufacturing processes are adding on to these environmental...
An emerging country like India needs to address the disproportionate and steadily increasing amount of natural resources required to sustain changing, urbanised lifestyles and raw materials for industry. With a rapidly growing economy, India is expected to have the world’s 3rd largest consumer market by 2020, with a global consumption...
Strengthening private sector capacity to adapt to climate change: focus on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind.
Because of their geographical location and weak infrastructure, developing countries and emerging economies bear the brunt of the consequences of...
The Promotion of Green Economic Development (ProGED) Programme supports the Philippines in mastering the challenge towards sustainable and inclusive growth. ProGED targets micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) which are the backbone of the country’s economy by putting a special emphasis on the tourism sector. In many cases, these MSMEs...
The Government of Fiji (GoF) has committed to integrating green growth into its development efforts. Green growth is a cornerstone of the new National Development Plan (NDP) for 2015-2020, which builds on the recent Green Growth Framework of Fiji. GGGI is supporting the Ministry of Finance with mainstreaming green growth...