During a meeting earlier this week with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, a delegation from the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) expressed intentions to serve Pacific Island countries that are members of the institute through an office it hopes to establish in Fiji. “The GGGI delegation, who are in the country on their […]

Ethiopia is widely regarded as an African success story when it comes to economic growth. According to the International Monetary Fund, the country’s economy is growing by seven percent annually. But there are concerns that climate change could jeopardise this growth. At a recent meeting at the United Nations conference centre in the Ethiopian capital, […]

Yvo de Boer, director general of the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and former executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), talks to Blue & Green Tomorrow about the obstacles that are keeping both developing countries and the west from a low-carbon revolution. Former global chairman of Climate Change and Sustainability Services […]

Efforts to stem the rapid decline of biodiversity will only be successful if governments force businesses to measure the impact they have on the world’s natural resources, the former United Nations climate chief has said. Speaking to BusinessGreen as environment ministers meet in Pyeongchang, South Korea, for a high level UN summit on biodiversity today, Yvo de […]

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 2014 (IPS) – Ethiopia has experienced its fair share of environmental damage and degradation but nowadays it is increasingly setting an example on how to combat climate change while also achieving economic growth.  “It is very well known by the international community that Ethiopia is one of the front-runners of international climate […]

Trying to get nearly 200 countries to agree to a global deal to cut carbon emissions has been like herding cats for the past 20 years, as international negotiators have discovered. Take China and India, which refused to make carbon cuts at 2009 United Nations negotiations in Copenhagen because they said doing so would keep […]

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has agreed to accept his nomination as the next president of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). He announced his intention during a speech before the GGGI leaders’ gathering held during the UN Climate Summit 2014 in New York. According to gggi.org, Yudhoyono will serve as GGGI assembly president from November, […]