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* Global institutions launch post-COVID recovery plan
* FAS joins the Coalition from the Brazilian Amazon
* Commentary on gender, resilience, and recovery CONVENOR UPDATE
Today, 5th June 2020, is World Environment Day, and on this day, in the midst of an ongoing global crisis, we offer our first message since the coronavirus struck.
From our hub partners around the world, we offer some painful and insightful coronavirus snapshots. And while we share their uncertainty, we know this moment demands a response, a global response. So today, GEC are proud to stand with our global policy partners, the UN, OECD, ILO, GGGI, GIZ, GGGI, GGKP which together collaborate under the banner ‘the Partners for Inclusive Green Economies’, to launch 10 priority options for a just, green, and transformative recovery. We add our voice to a moment of global solidarity; to a growing recognition.
The recognition is this: lurching from one crisis to another, with bigger crises looming, is neither acceptable, nor inevitable. The coronavirus crisis represents a profound fork in the road, a choice on which path to choose. It is time to get serious about change, to put improving the health of nature and reducing inequality at the heart of our recovery.
Oliver Greenfield
Convenor, Green Economy Coalition
PUBLICATION
10 policy options to build back better
This World Environment Day, the GEC joins global institutions to co-launch key actions for spurring a green and fair recovery from COVID-19. The partners include the OECD and several UN agencies, and have identified 10 key areas for transformative change. Read more…
BLOG Our partners respond to COVID-19
During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we’ve all been reassessing what’s most important. As well as the reflections of the GEC London team, our in-country partners share their insights on how the lockdown is affecting people around the world. Read more…
WEBINAR Sustainability after COVID-19
What does nature have to do with COVID-19? Almost everything! Our high-level panel explored how we can build back better by learning from nature – and our partners championed real-life experience for global policymaking. Watch the whole session here.
BLOG The future of work is green
Our Policy Director Najma Mohamed explores how a green jobs programme forms the best way to drive a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the COVID pandemic. Read more…
FAS Amazonas joins the Coalition
The GEC is proud to announce that Fundação Amazonas Sustentável (FAS) has joined the Coalition to develop a new workstream on bioeconomy in Brazil and the Amazon basin. Read more…
WEBINAR Green Finance for Africa
The next webinar at our on-going online African Forum on Green Economy will cover Finance – with a high-level panel discussing investment and funding for nature & sustainability. With sessions on Data, and Enabling Change still to come, you can register to attend, or catch up on past sessions, at the AFGE website.
BLOG New GEC Insights series
As part of our joint Economics for Nature project, we’ve launched a new blog series: GEC Insights. Each written by leading thinkers from the worlds of business, government and civil society, they bring together diverse perspectives to answer the question: how can we re-design our economies to protect and restore nature? Read more…
BLOG Green mustn’t forget gender
Equality is a key component of the transition to a green and fair economy, and nowhere is this more important than in the field of gender and women’s rights. Catriona McLean explores why. Read more…
BLOG Mongolia fights air pollution
As the weather warms and winter recedes, the air above Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar starts to clear. Our local partners at EPCRC explore how policy and community responses are starting to tackle one of the world’s most polluted cities. Read more…