GGKP announces Annual Conference call for abstracts

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance, Beyond GDP

 

Knowledge Update

Issue 2014-6                                                                                         August 11, 2014

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is pleased to announce its Third Annual Conference on the theme of “Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact”, to be held at the University of Venice, 29-30 January 2015. The GGKP is currently accepting abstracts on policy-relevant research findings on fiscal instruments and green economy. The deadline to submit is 15 September 2014; selected abstracts will be invited for presentation at the conference. Among the papers presented, the conference will recognize the best young-researcher paper and best overall paper. A selection of the best papers will be published. Travel funding is available to support a limited number of developing country presenters. Detailed information on abstract submission is available here.

About GGKP

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is a global network of international organizations and experts that identifies and addresses major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice. By encouraging widespread collaboration and world-class research, the GGKP offers practitioners and policymakers the policy guidance, good practices, tools, and data necessary to support the transition to a green economy.

  

Upcoming Events

LEDS GP Annual Event

LEDS GP

27-28 August 2014

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

Green Economy Coalition Global Meeting

GEC
1-2 September
London, England 

 

Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia
UNEP, UNITAR
1-24 September 2014
E-training course  

 

PAGE, ILO

6-17 October 2014

Turin, Italy


Global Green Growth Forum 

3GF
20-21 October 2014
Copenhagen, Denmark 

 

Asia LEDS Forum

11-13 November 2014

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 

13-14 November

Paris, France

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Latest Research

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published the report “Resource-efficient green economy and EU policies”. This report highlights the major forces fostering the shift to a resource-efficient green economy in Europe, including the role of EU policies. Findings emphasise the importance of studying and understanding enabling factors and mechanisms at the crossroads of policies and real economy dynamics that could accelerate and direct a green economy.

The UNEP report “Measuring China’s Environmental Industry” examines the feasibility of China adopting new global standards for tracking the latest data and trends in its Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS), as a means to inform its green development strategy and identify potential new green growth opportunities. This is the first study to explore how the EGSS framework could be adopted by a country with an emerging economy.  

Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment.  The OECD publication “Greening Household Behaviour: Overview from the 2011 Survey – Revised edition” presents responses from surveys of 10,000 households across a number of countries and areas. The surveys highlight the importance economic incentives in influencing decisions, and the significant complementary role that “soft” measures such as labeling and public information campaigns can play. 

 

The UN report “Pathways to Deep Decarbonization” by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) shows how major emitting countries can cut their carbon emissions by mid-century in order to prevent irreversible climate change.  This interim report, produced by leading research institutes across 15 countries, is the first global cooperative program to identify practical pathways to a low-carbon economy by 2050. The full report will be available in the spring of 2015.

The ongoing review of the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget is closely linked to the debate over the impact that domestic climate change policies can have on the competitiveness of businesses. The paper by London School of Economics (LSE), Local Government for Sustainability (ICLEI) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), titled  “Burden or opportunity? How UK emissions reductions policies affect the competitiveness of businesses” investigates to what extent climate change policy affects the economy. The paper provides policy design recommendations to mitigate impacts on UK businesses and highlights the ability of policies to increase a country’s capacity to compete in low-carbon innovation.

The OECD report “Environment and regional trade agreements: Emerging trends and policy drivers” examines trends in the use of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements and identifies factors which may explain the presence or absence of these provisions. The report includes case studies from Australia, Canada, Chile, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, United States and Switzerland.

GGKP News

Since the GGKP was first launched in January 2012, it has grown from a simple concept for improving collaboration on green growth analysis among a few institutions to a global partnership of over 30 leading international organizations and research institutes – all committed to the transition to a green economy.
In our first annual report, we set out the results of GGKP’s efforts in 2012 and 2013 to promote organisational collaboration, identify and address green growth knowledge gaps, promote knowledge sharing, and stimulate the development of a vibrant green growth community of practice.

Indicators play a valuable role in helping communicate the importance of green growth and incentivising action. With this issue in mind, the GGKP recently hosted a policy session on the topic of “Moving Beyond GDP – Measuring Inclusive Green Growth” as part of the Fifth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE). The session, chaired by Marianne Fay, Chief Economist of the Climate Change Group at the World Bank, involved an in depth debate on the topic between Edward Barbier(University of Wyoming), Carlo Carraro (University of Venice), Geoffrey Heal (Columbia Business School), and Sheng Fulai (UNEP).

    

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