Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP)
The Green Growth Best Practice initiative seeks to improve the quality and effectiveness of green growth planning and implementation internationally. It is designed to facilitate peer learning by compiling, analyzing, and broadly disseminating best practices at all levels of government, the private sector and civil society. Launched in October 2012 the GGBP is supported by four organizations – Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN), European Climate Foundation (ECF) and International Climate Initiative (ICI) of the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature, Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. Ecofys, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, the JI Network, and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory are providing technical support for the project.
Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
GGGI has joined the World Bank, UNEP and the OECD to create a global network of researchers and development experts with the aim to identify and address major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice. The Platform will then use this to provide policymakers with the necessary tools to facilitate the transition to a model of green economic growth. GGKP hosted its inaugural conference in January 2012, in Mexico City, in partnership with the Instituto Nacional De Ecología Y Cambio Climático. The conference began the assessment of the state of knowledge on green growth and the identification of key gaps for further practical research. GGGI is co-hosting the GGKP Secretariat with UNEP. A follow-up conference is planned for April 2013 in Paris.
Green Growth and the New Industrial Revolution
This program, undertaken by GGGI and the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, is a two-year research project that sets out to better understand the link between environmental protection, growth, and development. It aims to strengthen the analytical and empirical underpinnings of green growth in both developed and developing countries. The program is broken down into four projects: 1) macroeconomic issues: Jobs, Poverty and Green Growth; 2) studies of the impact of innovation and other climate-change policies; 3) evidence from economic history about the sources of growth and the role of policy; and 4) growth and adaptation to climate change. For more information about GGGI’s work with GRI, click here
Green Growth in Developing Countries
GGGI is supporting the OECD and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in preparing a report on ‘Green Growth and Developing Countries’ to present channels in which green growth objectives can be achieved and the policies, regulations, technology transfer and new market opportunities that can help deliver them. The first draft of the report was released in April 2011 and was presented and discussed by developing country government officials and experts in the field at the GGGI-OECD Policy Consultation on May 9 in the run-up to the Global Green Growth Summit in Seoul. The findings from the Consultation and the Summit were worked into the final report. A copy of the report can be found here
Green Technology
GGGI has teamed up with the Brookings Institution for a research project which seeks to 1) examine international mechanisms for green technology innovation in developing countries and 2) propose options for an international architecture which would extend the pace and diffusion of technological innovation. The research project will:
- Survey and map ongoing initiatives and proposals to enhance research development and deployment (RD&D) capacity for green growth related technology in the developing world;
- As part of this survey, identify approaches to enhance developing country access to intellectual property (IP) that would allow development and diffusion of appropriate technologies for local conditions;
- Identify stages of this process that are currently under-supported;
- Review precedents for international IP development and sharing in other fields (pharmaceuticals, agriculture, etc) and assess how lessons can be deployed in the green growth innovation space to address the gaps identified;
- Outline the components of a potential international initiative. This proposal would consider the balance between international cooperation and funding in support of potential networks, technology development and/or acquisition of IP; and
- Outline a series of options with criteria for their assessment.
In November 2012, GGGI and Brookings released a report entitled Green Growth Innovation: New Pathways for International Cooperation.
Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement
GGGI launched the Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) research project in cooperation with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. The aim of the project is to analyze the feasibility of a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement and develop a detailed set of policy options, which could serve as the basis for such an agreement. The concept for such an agreement involves creating a sectoral free trade arrangement where sustainable energy products and services are traded among country participants without tariff and non-tariff barriers. GGGI and its partners believe that a similar arrangement could help to stimulate the diffusion and innovation of energy efficient products and technologies. The process was launched with a symposium in Washington at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in November 2011.
SETA research Papers:
International Technology Diffusion in a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement
Trade Law Implications of Procurement Practices in Sustainable Energy Goods and Services
Governing Clean Energy Subsidies: What, Why, and How Legal?
Issues and Considerations for Negotiating a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement
