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Green Economy can serve as a vehicle to achieve the SDGs and advance the transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient and inclusive economies. Since an increasing number of countries have started to engage in Green Economy policy practices, it is crucial to provide a framework for countries to review and assess the coherence and effectiveness of their existing policies in fostering Inclusive Green Economy transitions and to monitor their progress towards the SDGs.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to greening the growth path of an economy as this depends on place-based policy and institutional settings, level of development, resource endowments and particular environmental pressure points. This research proposal addresses the place-based, context-dependent nature of the shift to green growth in the Nordic countries by asking the question: where does the green economy grow?

Many developing countries and emerging economies are currently defining country-specific strategies for their economies to become more inclusive, climate-friendly, resilient and resource-efficient. However, governments often face strong economic and social pressure, and transformational policies are difficult to advocate – unless proven socially and economically viable.

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The Government of Mongolia (GoM) recognizes that to achieve its development goals and sustain the country’s recent growth, improvements in its water sector must be achieved. Ensuring that Mongolia’s water sector has sufficient water resources-related data is a goal that the GoM has set in order to strengthen water policy and management systems.

The Government of Colombia has identified green growth as critical to maintaining development in the years to come and has made it a priority to implement inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth principles into the country’s development planning. GGGI is supporting the Government of Colombia to establish green growth as a...

The overall goal of the project is to strengthen national statistical systems in developing countries to enable them to effectively produce statistical indicators on green economy and green growth in the context of sustainable development.

The project aims to strengthen green economy and sustainable development indicators and its underlying statistics...

The project “Enhancing South-South Cooperation – Building the Capacity of Developing Countries to Promote Green Economies” was based on the often-articulated wish of developing countries to exchange and share good practices with other countries of the South. The project had two key objectives. The first was to facilitate knowledge exchange...

The Natural Capital Coalition is running a project to draft a harmonised framework for valuing natural capital in business decision making to enable better measurement, management, reporting and disclosure. This is the Natural Capital Protocol (NCP). Funding for the project is provided in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore...

The Environmental Performance Reviews (EPRs) identify good practices and make recommendations to improve the reviewed country’s environmental policies and programmes.

Environment Ministers of OECD member countries in January 1991, called on the OECD to review environmental performance in member countries. This mandate was confirmed by the OECD Council meeting at...

WAVES as a means to implement the NCA commitment. The overall goal of the Global Partnership for Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) is to support partner countries to achieve sustainable development by systematically integrating values for natural capital in their national accounts systems, and, through the national...