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Green Industrialization: Pathways towards Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development - Green Industry Summer Course: 27 July – 30 July 2020 Budapest, Hungary
(2020)The impacts and economic consequences of COVID-19 are adding to existing complexities and are creating economic hardship worldwide. Economies have been hard hit by the crisis due to the direct disruptions in supply chains ... -
Green infrastructure: guide for water management
(UNEP, 2014)Green Infrastructure (GI) is becoming increasingly recognized as an important opportunity for addressing the complex challenges of water management. The GI approach refers to the natural or semi-natural systems that provide ... -
Green Jobs - UNEP Factsheet
(2020)Green jobs1 are core to the United Nations’ and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s response to COVID-19 recovery packages. Amid all the loss and tragedy of the pandemic, hundreds of millions of people have lost ... -
Green Jobs: Towards Sustainable Work in a Low-Carbon World
(Worldwatch Institute (Michael Renner) and Cornell Labour Institute (Sean Sweeney, Jill Kubit), 2008)The following report, produced by Worldwatch Institute (September 2008), has compiled evidence of green jobs available currently and how a 'green' economy could create and transform jobs in the future. Split into three ... -
Green Korea 2001;In pursuit of economic and environmental sustainability
(Ministry of Environment - Republic of Korea, 2001)In the 20th century, a significant portion of humankind achieved remarkable economic growth, which brought great material abundance. In the new century, however, new focus should be placed on the quality of national ... -
Green Label for Businesses, Tel Aviv-Yafo- Online Platform: SwitchMed in Israel - SwitchMed Programme [Factsheet]
(2020)The city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, the second most populous city in Israel and the second largest local economy in the Middle East in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection created a Green Label for ... -
Green meeting guide 2009: roll out the green carpet for your participants
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2009)The United Nations organisations are responsible for an impressive number of meetings each year, ranging from small meetings of 10 people, up to large events with several thousand participants. These meetings take place ... -
Green Paper - Policy Options to Accelerate the Global Transition to Advanced Lighting.
(2014)This paper describes issues that stall progress and possible options to accelerate successful programmes which can be replicated and scaled up at national, regional and global levels; and provides the foundation for dialogue ... -
Green Public Procurement in the Republic of Korea: A Decade of Progress and Lessons Learned
(2019)This study takes a close look at Korea’s state-of-the-art Green Public Procurement policy impact measurement methodology, with an overview of other successful international experiences. It makes recommendations on possible ... -
Green Room 2012: Global Universities Partnership on Environmental and Sustainability (GUPES) Universities and Sustainability - Towards Rio+20
(2012-02-22)Global Universities Partnership on Environmental and Sustainability (GUPES): Universities and Sustainability: Towards Rio+20 -
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Green Solutions for a Growing Adhesives Business - Eco-Innovation success story from Malaysia
(2017)Malaysia’s Wilron Products is an adhesives manufacturer with a plan. Thanks to a new eco-innovative strategy, the company is providing its customers with the ecological adhesives they want, while aiming for a bigger share ... -
Green Stimulus [Frequently Asked Questions]
(2020)This factsheet answers the following questions: What is Green Fiscal Stimulus? How does Green Fiscal Stimulus work, and who pays for it What UNEP doing to support green fiscal policy? Who is UNEP working with on Green ... -
Green Supply Chain to Halt global Greenhouse Gas Emissions due to Deforestation and Degradation
(2019)The key contribution of the initiative is to stop the global GHG emissions resulted by global deforestation, land degradation and natural habitat conversion (hereinafter as deforestation/conversion), through building up ... -
Green Tagging: Mobilising Bank Finance for Energy Efficiency in Real Estate - Report from the Bank Working Group 2017
(2017)This report presents the findings and recommendations from a survey of green tagging practices among 10 European banks: ABN Amro, BBVA, Berlin Hyp, HSBC, ING, Lloyds, SEB, Suedtiroler Volksbank, Triodos and UniCredit. The ... -
Green Tanning Initiative (GTI): Promoting Technologies that Reduce the Environmental Impact of Leather Processing and Creating Sustainable Employment in the Industry in Ethiopia
(2019)In Ethiopia, tanning is an important economic activity. The country is home to the largest population of livestock in Africa and is the 10th largest producer in the world. The livestock sector contributes towards 16.5 per ... -
Green Technology Choices: The Environmental and Resource Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies - International Resource Panel Report
(2017)This report provides a comprehensive global-scale assessment of the benefits, risks, and trade-offs of energy efficiency technologies and their combined effects when deployed alongside low-carbon electricity supply ... -
Green to Green: An Overview of a Revenue Generation Approach to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Dissemination in Kenya - SWITCH Africa Green
(2019)Green to Grow aims to reach 100 MSMEs through training activities, 200 MSMEs through awareness raising activities, 40 Member Based Organizations (MBOs) in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda -
Green to Grow Online Course is Helping my Mango Business During the COVID-19 Crisis - Switch Africa Green
(2020)Mango processor narrates her experience