The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) has been developed in partnership between the Global Green Growth Institute, the OECD, UNEP, and the World Bank.   The GGKP is a global network of researchers and development experts that identifies and addresses major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice, to help countries design and implement green growth policy. Through widespread consultation and world-class research, the GGKP provides practitioners and policymakers with better tools to foster economic growth and implement sustainable development.

Over time, the GGKP website will roll out new green-growth related programs, report activities from around the world, link to organizers’ flagship reports as well as create a collaborative online community for green growth stakeholders.

 

Job opportunity! The GGKP Secretariat is recruiting a full-time Platform Manager. Post date: April 10, 2012, closing date April 27, 2012. Location: Flexible (Paris, Geneva or other GGKP partner locations) For more information and contact details, see the job description. Please note: Recruitment is being managed by the Global Green Growth Institute.

 

Press release launching the GGKP: Global organizations to expand cooperation on green growth for development | Spanish version

 

Green Growth Knowledge Platform Inaugural Conference, January 2012

 

The GGKP hosted its inaugural conference on 12-13 January 2012 at the Four Seasons Mexico D.F. in Mexico City. The conference assessed the state of knowledge on green growth and has launched an ambitious agenda for further practical research. 

 

Speech by the OECD Secretary-General (in Spanish) Discurso Inaugural de la Conferencia de la Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre el Crecimiento Verde (GGKP)

 

Agenda

 

Sessions were held on the following themes:

• Welfare measurement + performance metrics
• Infrastructure and urban development
• Green growth and trade
• Green growth, technology, and innovation
• Green employment
• Natural resource management/investing in natural capital
• Behavioral economics and green growth

See full program.

Further reading

 

Papers and documents from the conference are available on the GGKP website under the ‘Documents’ tab (not to be cited without the express permission of the authors).

 

The following OECD publications and reports were showcased at the conference:

 

Overview of OECD work on green growth (PDF)

 

Publications

• Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation (2011)
• Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth (2010)
• Greening Household Behaviour (2011)
• Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies (2011)
• Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels (2011)
• OECD Green Growth Studies: Energy (2011)
• OECD Green Growth Studies: Food and Agriculture (2011)
• OECD Green Growth Studies: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth (2011)
• The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action beyond 2012 (2009)

 

Free Reports

• A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies, Economics Department Working Paper, no 685 (2010)
• A Welfare Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Policies, Economics Department Working Paper, no 908 (2011) 
• Employment Impacts Of Climate Change Mitigation Policies In OECD: A General-Equilibrium Perspective, Environment Working Paper no. 32 (2011)
• Enabling Local Green Growth: Addressing Climate Change Effects on Employment and Local Development (2011)
• Greening Jobs and Skills: Labour Market Implications of Addressing Climate Change, LEED Working Paper Series (2010)
• Moving Towards Green Growth: Implications for the Least Developed Countries (Forthcoming Working Paper)
• Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change: Approaches to Managing Climate Risks, Environment Working Paper no. 39 (2011)
• Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment, Trade and Environment Working Paper 2011/01 (2011)
• Trade in Services Related to Climate Change, Trade and Environment Working Paper 2011/03 (2011)
• Trade-Related Measures Based on Processes and Production Methods in the Context of Climate-Change Mitigation, Trade and Environment Working Paper 2011/04 (2011).