This paper aims to facilitate discussion on the topic of greening post COVID-19 economic recovery so that recovery measures are more aligned with sustainable development.
This policy brief recommends focusing stimulus investment on resilient infrastructure and food security to overcome the COVID-climate crisis. It proposes a set of policy recommendations that bring multiple benefits, a “triple dividend”, to African countries.
As the technical lead for the socio-economic response, UNDP and its country offices worldwide are working to assess the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and communities. This report contains the preliminary findings of the socio-economic assessment conducted for Malawi.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Recognizing Natural Capital in Policy Frameworks for Green Growth. The paper suggests a set of checklist criteria for integrating natural capital into green growth policymaking after reviewing 11 green growth and natural capital policy frameworks. This integration framework is then applied to the green growth policy frameworks of four leading organisations, the results of which suggests that a more comprehensive consideration of natural capital assets and services could significantly strengthen green growth policy support at the national level.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Natural Capital and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper presents a methodology to estimate the “natural capital gap” in attaining nine SDGs and demonstrates the estimated sum of global natural capital gaps.