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.
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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

Recognizing the importance of its forest resources to national development, the Government of Colombia (GoC) has set a goal to achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. GGGI is helping the GoC to achieve this sustainable, low-carbon growth goal through the Amazon Vision project. Developed and implemented in partnership with the...

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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

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...

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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
The Government of Vietnam recognizes that to achieve the sustainable development goals identified in its “National Strategy on Green Growth for the period 2011- 2020 with vision to 2050”, modernizing the Mekong Delta’s agricultural production and water resource management systems will be critical.
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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

Recognizing that balanced urbanization is key for sustaining growth, reducing poverty and achieving upper middle-income status by 2030, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has identified the importance of investing in urban infrastructure and improving urban planning will be critical. GGGI is helping the RGC efforts to utilize green growth...

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Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
In this project, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands, Oxford Policy Management and ClimateCare are exploring how the political economy of energy security influences the ambition and implementation of national green growth plans.
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Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
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.
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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...

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United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

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...

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Center for Development Research (ZEF)

This project aims to conduct an integrated global assessment of the costs of action and inaction against land degradation. Land degradation is a global problem, affecting about a quarter of global land area. Moreover, about half of the global very poor live on degraded land. Given that the poor heavily...

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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...