Former President of Guyana, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, was on Tuesday elected as the first president of the Assembly of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). The election took place in Seoul, Korea where the ceremonies establishing the GGGI as an international organisation took place. GGGI was established to help shift the global model of development […]

The UAE was unanimously chosen to the Global Green Growth Institute’s (GGGI) foundational Council, the international organization’s executive organ, as part of the Institute’s high-profile formal establishment and inaugural ceremony today in Seoul. GGGI is the world’s newest multilateral organization and a pioneer of the “green growth” economic model recently endorsed as a key development […]

President Lee Myung-bak said Tuesday Korea will launch a graduate school on green growth at the country’s top science and technology university to help produce global talent to lead and develop the environment-friendly growth paradigm. Lee made the announcement during a speech at the inaugural conference in Seoul of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), […]

Korea wants to make real contributions to the welfare of the world and is adopting green growth as its theme. Songdo has just been selected to host the secretariat of the United Nations-operated Green Climate Fund (GCF), often compared with the World Bank in the area of sustainable development. Now, the two-day meeting for the […]

The launch of the Seoul-led international organization on green growth will serve as “an important first step” for the world toward changing its economic paradigm for sustainable growth, the group’s chairman said Tuesday. “We must act now and quickly shifting to a new economic paradigm. We can and must view economic growth and care for […]