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Green economy: what do we mean by green economy?
(UNEP, 2012)Reinvigorated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a global discussion and national activities on green economy transitions have regained momentum since 2008. The increase in interest is, among other things, ... -
Green economy: why a green economy matters for the least developed countries
(2011)The report shows that new opportunities offered by a green economy will help LDCs meet their Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the internationally agreed poverty reduction and social development targets that have a 2015 ... -
Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2016)This report presents the first in-depth inter national comparative assessment of the envir onmental and resource impacts of different energy technologies, modelled over the whole life cycle of each technology, from cradle ... -
Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production - Summary for Policy Makers
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)This report presents an assessment of the impacts of nine main electricity production technologies on human health, ecosystem health and resource use, taking a life-cycle approach. It covers coal and gas with and without ... -
Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity production – Factsheet
(2016)Rising energy demand and efforts to combat climate change require a significant increase in low-carbon electricity generation. Yet, concern has been raised that rapid investment in some novel technologies could cause a new ... -
Green finance - A growing imperative: A briefing
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)The financial system should play an important role in promoting the green transformation of our economies -
Green Finance for Developing Countries: Needs, Concerns and Innovations
(2016-07)This briefing outlines key concerns and needs of developing countries in relation to green finance, particularly focusing on developing countries that are not members of the G20. It also highlights emerging innovations, ... -
Green finance for developing countries: Needs, concerns and innovations
(2016)This briefing outlines key concerns and needs of developing countries in relation to green finance, particularly focusing on developing countries that are not members of the G20. It also highlights emerging innovations, ... -
Green Finance Opportunities in ASEAN
(2017)This report lays out ways in which the ASEAN region can unlock this investment and protect its people, environment and economies. It provides an analysis of green investment opportunities in the region from 2016 to 2030, ... -
Green Finance Progress Report
(2017)This paper highlights some of the progress made against these seven options in G20 members and internationally since June 2016. Progress described is illustrative and non-exhaustive, drawing on voluntary contributions from ... -
Green financing mechanisms are needed for small enterprises, including support for MSMEs to help them develop sustainable business models and bankable proposals for implementing identified green options in their enterprises - Switch Africa Green
(2019)Green financing mechanisms are needed for small enterprises, including support for MSMEs to help them develop sustainable business models and bankable proposals for implementing identified green options in their enterprises. -
Green Financing Models in Solid Waste Management: A Case of Nakuru County Kenya - SWITCH Africa Green
(2019)Integrated solid waste management is strategic approach waste that consists of pre-collection, collection, transportation storage, treatment, and disposal . With the modern hierarchy of waste management includes prevention, ... -
Green Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
(2017)This paper focuses on the actual and potential role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in achieving the transition to a low-carbon, just and sustainable world and, more specifically, FDI flows into developing countries. -
Green Growth Indicators
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2014)A first set of green growth indicators was proposed in Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress in 2011. This report updates and extends those indicators. It charts the progress that countries have made in four areas: the ... -
Green growth, resources and resilience: environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific
(UNEP, 2012)This report describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and ... -
Green hills, blue cities: an ecosystems approach to water resources management for African cities
(UNEP, 2011)Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban areas. The urban population in Africa doubled ... -
Green hOrticulture at LAke Naivasha Project (GOALAN)
(2019)The project will work towards making the horticultural sector in Kenya and beyond contribute to an inclusive and green economy by a large uptake of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) practices along the supply ... -
Green Industrial Policy and Trade: A Tool-Box
(2017)The Environment and Trade Hub of UN Environment and UNIDO, under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), cooperate to undertake Green Economy Industry and Trade Assessments (GITA) in various PAGE partner ... -
Green Industrial Policy: Concept, Policies, Country Experiences
(2017-12-05)“Green industrial policy: Concept, policies, country Experiences” is a joint publication by UN Environment and the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). It illustrates how green ...