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.
To encourage broader participation in conservation efforts, the Green Development Initiative (hosted by Earthmind) is piloting a public registry, international standard and best-practice toolkit for Verified Conservation Areas (VCAs). The online VCA Registry facilitates public recognition and support for verified conservation action on the ground.
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The proposed global environmental objective of this project is to conserve globally significant biodiversity and enhance local livelihoods in Panama through improved management of protected areas and mainstreaming biodiversity-friendly management practices in their buffer zones.
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...
Available evidence and the decisions adopted by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) indicate that a significant gap remains in finance for biodiversity management, for countries to drastically scale up their efforts and achieve the 20 Aichi Targets defined in the CBD’s Strategic Plan for 2011-2020. A preliminary...
The overarching objective of this project is to contribute to the preservation, conservation, and sustainable management of the biodiversity of the Caatinga in the states of Bahia and Ceará, while improving the quality of life of its inhabitants, through the introduction of sustainable development practices.
The primary objective of the proposed project is to reverse the process of degradation of the natural resource base and improve the productive potential of natural resources and incomes of the rural households in the project areas. The secondary objective is to support policy and institutional development to harmonize watershed...
Increasing global demand for food and energy and the prospect of a forest conservation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change represent major opportunities and challenges for bioeconomy development at tropical forest margins. Tropical forests are both a source of new agricultural land and providers of global...
The overall aim of WASCAL is to identify resilient and adaptive land use systems and develop measures to conserve or restore functional ecosystems that support sustainable human development, while preserving the natural resource base for future generations. It will make available to the West African research community the expertise existing...
The OECD African Economic Outlook (AEO) is a high-quality, independent tool for monitoring Africa’s economic development on an on-going basis. Because Africa comprises many different, fast-changing countries, the report grasps the short-term performance of individual economies in their regional context; and because development is multi-faceted, it brings together the macroeconomic, structural and social dimensions.
Under the first phase of the EC-funded Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP), UNEP launched the report, “Green Economy & Trade: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities” presenting six of the most promising sectors for Green Economy and Trade. On the basis of the empirical analysis presented in the report, UNEP...