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.
PROADAPT was launched in 2013 by the Inter-American Development Bank in partnership with the Nordic Development Fund to increase the climate resilience of micro, small, and medium-sized (MSME) companies and the local communities in which they operate, while also looking for new business opportunities for MSMEs in the region.
The Sharing Experience and Knowledge for a Sustainable Belt and Road project will support the opportunities for sustainable development associated with Belt and Road investments by increasing Belt and Road stakeholders’ awareness and understanding of the sustainable development opportunities and challenges associated with Belt and Road investments, and policy conditions required to enable and address them. This outcome will be achieved through knowledge, data collection and sharing, as well as capacity building.
Given the increasing global demand for food, feed, industrial raw material and energy crops, BiomassWeb aims at contributing to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa through harnessing productivity and efficiency gains in the whole biomass-producing, processing and trading system. This will be achieved by an increased integration of all value web...
Deforestation of the Amazon region is resulting in the loss of biodiversity, the release of greenhouse gases and a reduction in the size of areas where traditional population groups live. Brazil has therefore set itself ambitious targets for the reduction of deforestation.
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.
Russian industry produces high levels of pollutants and greenhouse gases. This is partly due to outdated industrial plants with inefficient and resource-wasting production methods. Despite a considerable need for modernization, investments in environmentally friendly technologies are lagging.
The fashion industry is booming: The design comes from Europe, the cotton from Africa or America which is processed into fabric in China, before being shipped to Bangladesh where it is sewn into the T-shirt that consumers find in the shops in Europe.
In 2010 Ethiopia launched a five year, multi-sectoral plan to bring the country to middle-income status, known as the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). Since 2011, Ethiopia’s Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has run alongside the GTP; its aim is to identify green economy opportunities to bring about high growth targets while keeping greenhouse gas emissions low.
UNDP established the Green Commodities Programme (GCP) in 2009, with the mission to transform agricultural production and trade around the world through multi-stakeholder collaboration and the establishment of effective national enabling environments in producer countries.
Agricultural commodities are the engine of economic growth in rural areas of emerging markets where...
This analytical work aims to support the national, subnational and local governments' efforts to develop an inclusive and green mining sector as a harbinger for broad based multi-sector growth of the Peruvian economy that would be tested in the Apurimac region where strategic sustainable development options, investment strategies and associated...