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.
Climate change poses a significant threat to the African continent, one of the most vulnerable to climate extremes, also suffering from a limited capacity to adapt to a changing climate. The continent’s main growth engines rely on natural resources, including agriculture and forestry, that are heavily impacted by climate variability...
Climate change can only be stopped through the global transformation of the economy and lifestyles. Corresponding goals have already been anchored in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement. However, the ensuing commitments present a challenge for many countries and require comprehensive solutions.
The Inclusive Green...
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...
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.
In 2018, EfD launches a new collaborative research program called Policy Instruments for Sustainable Management of Oceans and Marine Resources. The two focus areas of the program will be effective management of fisheries and combating marine pollution, the latter with a specific focus on plastic waste.
The EPR Programme assists countries to improve their environmental management and performance; promotes information exchange among countries on policies and experiences; helps integrating environmental policies into economic sectors; promotes greater accountability to the public and strengthens cooperation with the international community.
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.
Costa Rica has set itself the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2021. As a result, it is committed to adopting policies sustainably and over the long-term that will help reduce emissions. This politically ambitious goal requires making a tremendous effort as well as using demanding, innovative approaches – particularly as emissions in key sectors are currently on the rise.
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.