GGKP Webinar - Towards Green Growth? Official Launch of the OECD's Tracking Progress Report

Organisation :
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)

Four years after the launch of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Green Growth Strategy, the OECD has launched a new report titled "Towards Green Growth? Tracking Progress", which draws lessons from country experiences and examines how to enhance policy design to deliver green growth.

On 27 July 2015 (3:00 PM CEST), the GGKP and the OECD held a webinar to explore these issues through presentations, discussion and debate exploring the conclusions of this new report.

This webinar explored the advances made since the launch of the OECD's green growth strategy in 2011 and highlighted areas of broad scope to heighten the ambition and effectiveness of green growth policy. Drawing lessons from green growth mainstreaming across the OECD's work programme, notably in terms of how governments can maximise institutional settings to seize economic opportunities surrounding the transition to a green economy.  The webinar also outlined ways to enrich the Green Growth Strategy based on work undertaken since 2011.

Moderator: Carlo Carraro, Co-Chair of the GGKP Advisory Committee

Introduction by: Catherine L. Mann, Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department, OECD

Presentation by: Nathalie Girouard, Head of Division, Environmental Performance and Information Division Environment Directorate (OECD)

Discussant: Kevin Urama, Inaugural Managing Director, Quantum Global Research Lab

 

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