16 February 2017 - Issue 1
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Feature Story:
Q&A with Martine Rohn-Brossard of Switzerland
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In this Q&A, the GGKP sits down with Martine Rohn-Brossard, Deputy Head of the International Affairs Division for Switzerland's Federal Office for the Environment. Martine discusses the Batumi Initiative on Green Economy (
BIG-E), a set of voluntary green economy commitments by European governments and organisations. Martine highlights the progress made by Ministers at the
Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, an important step towards transitioning to a green economy across the Pan-European region and beyond.
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Innovative Solutions to Accessing Climate Finance
GGGI has released the paper, 'Mind the Gap: Bridging the Climate Financing Gap with Innovative Financial Mechanisms'. The paper shows that innovative financial mechanisms can greatly advance the pace of project financing. In it, GGGI maps traditional financial instruments to five broad categories of risk at every stage of project financing. The paper also provides three case studies to demonstrate the function, characteristics and use of innovative mechanisms in practice and underscore their potential for catalytic and scalable impacts.
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The Impact on Jobs: Ensuring A Just Transition
A new paper produced by the ILO, 'A Just Transition to Climate-Resilient Economies and Societies: Issues and Perspectives for the World of Work', addresses the negative impacts of climate change on employment and livelihoods. It also explores how climate-related policy, investment and consumption responses can affect labour markets. The paper concludes by stressing the need for accompanying social and economic policies to achieve a just transition for all.
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Mobilising Private Low-carbon Investment
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The Impact of Climate Response Measures
ICTSD has released the paper, 'The Role of Response Measures in Ensuring the Sustainable Transition to a Low-GHG Economy'. This policy brief explores climate response measures from a practical and policy-relevant perspective. The paper draws lessons from existing experiences with impacts from the implementation of response measures, and examines a number of options on how this issue can successfully be dealt with, considering both the Paris Agreement and the new post-Paris political reality.
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Climate Finance in the Pacific
SEI's recent paper, 'Climate Finance in the Pacific: An Overview of Flows to the Region's Small Island Developing States'. This working paper presents an analysis of climate finance flows to Pacific Island states in 2010-2014, collectively and by country, as well as more recent data on flows from multilateral climate funds. The analysis covers 15 countries: the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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Low Carbon Development in China & India
TERI and Jawaharlal Nehru University have produced the paper, 'Approaches to Low Carbon Development in China and India'. This paper discusses the role of China and India as important global actors in light of development imperatives in the two countries. The article then looks at emerging approaches in the two countries related to financing, science, technology & innovation policy, and sub-national actions. The objective of this research is to demonstrate some of the best practices in the region which other countries could learn from.
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Upcoming GGKP Webinar on Win-Win Solutions for
Economic Development & Climate Goals
Join the GGKP and GREEN-WIN for a webinar on 22 February 15:00-16:30 (CET), 'Can We Achieve Economic Development & Climate Goals Together? Applying Win-Win Strategies'. The webinar will focus on three key GREEN-WIN projects on green business models. GREEN-WIN is developing governance models and implementation solutions to address climate change. The webinar will outline early findings from the project on integration of climate strategies, access to sustainable development finance, flood risk management in coastal regions, and transformations in urban areas.
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The Fifth GGKP Annual Conference will be hosted by the World Bank from
27-29 November 2017, on the topic of Sustainable Infrastructure. To stimulate research on these issues and foster interdisciplinary dialogue, GGKP and the World Bank have released a 'Call for Papers', that requests contributions on the infrastructure agenda.
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- 15 February, Washington DC, USA, Rising to the Global Energy Challenge, World Bank Group, SE4All
- 21 - 23 February, Nassau, Bahamas, UN Bahamas Symposium on Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in SIDS, Government of the Bahamas, UNDESA
- 23 February, Geneva, Switzerland, Green Economy - Can It Work? Two Book Launches, UNOG
- 22 - 24 February, Bali, Indonesia World Ocean Summit 2017, Economist
- 27 - 28 March, Berlin, Germany, PAGE Ministerial Conference 2017, PAGE
- 27 - 29 November, Washington DC, USA, Fifth Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference (2017), GGKP, World Bank Group
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- 22 February, Webinar, Can We Achieve Economic Development & Climate Goals Together? Applying Win-Win Strategies, GGKP, GREEN-WIN
- 13 March - 3 April,Course, International Environmental Governance, UNITAR
- 13 March - 26 May, Course, Green Jobs for Sustainable Development: Concepts and Practices, ICT-ILO
- 13 March - 21 April, Course, Green Economy and Trade E-Learning Course, UNITAR
- 17 April - 15 May, Course, International Economic Legal System and Sustainable Development, UNITAR
- 25 April - 24 May, Course, Climate Finance: Innovative Approaches in Supporting Climate Action (Facilitated), World Bank
- 9 - 21 July, Course, Summer School for Enterprise and Environment, SSEE, University of Oxford
Open-ended courses
- MOOC on The E-waste Challenge - Let's get it right for people, planet and profit, Climate-KIC, UNEP/BRS, KU Leuven, The World Resources Forum
- Course, Climate Policy and Public Finance, UNITAR, UNDP
- Course, Introductory Learning Materials on Green Economy, Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)
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