A new report has determined that investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy sources yield more jobs for a set amount of spending than investing in maintaining or expanding the fossil fuel industry. The report, Global Green Growth: Clean Energy Industrial Investment and Expanding Job Opportunities, was published earlier this week and presented at the Vienna […]

MANILA, Philippines — A former U.N. climate chief expressed confidence Thursday that global climate talks in Paris later this year will produce an agreement, putting the world on track to begin the process of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Yvo de Boer, now head of the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute, said in […]

Over the last two decades, Yvo de Boer has been involved with the climate negotiation process from all sides. First as a top negotiator for the Netherlands, then as the executive secretary of the United Nations climate secretariat, and now as the head of a nongovernmental group, the Global Green Growth Institute, working to promote […]

Highlights of the two-day International Conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, which included GGGI’s participation and launch of reports on green growth initiatives in the Steppe country. Read the highlights here.

By Daniel Muñoz-Smith, GGGI Communications Specialist  Mongolia is well known as a country of temperature extremes; scorching highs of 40 degrees Celsius in the Gobi desert, and frigid minus 40 degrees Celsius lows during the long winter months. Such extremes, however, are not limited to weather, as recent developments have demonstrated that the steppe nation […]