Since its establishment as an international organization at the RIO+20 Conference in 2012, GGGI’s membership has grown from 18 founding signatories to 50 Members and 29 Partner States at the end of 2024. GGGI draws upon the lessons learnt from this cross-regional pool of green growth experiences to pursue the transformative green growth agenda alongside its Members and Partners.
A low-carbon, resilient world of strong, inclusive, and sustainable growth.
A global transition toward a model of green growth. While this is differentiated at the country level, at its core are strategies that simultaneously achieve poverty reduction, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and economic growth.
Five core values – Integrity, Transformational, Inclusive, Boldness, and Excellence – provide the guiding framework for the way we work. We continually engage our people to uphold our values, to embed an organizational culture that is innovative, collaborative and focused on delivering results against our mission as “One GGGI”.
GGGI has a unique in-country presence and prominent role as an independent, trusted advisor and strategic development partner embedded in Member and partner governments. This special arrangement or positioning enables GGGI to serve the role of an enabler and facilitator, providing policy advice and technical support in the development of green growth plans, policies and regulations, mobilization of green investments, implementation of green growth projects, and development of sub-national, national, regional capacities and knowledge.
GGGI Strategy 2030 sets the course for GGGI’s efforts to effectively support its Members needs’ in transforming their economies toward environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive green growth. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for a strengthened global response to the threat of climate crisis and deteriorating environmental conditions, seeking to keep a global temperature rise this century to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Additionally, the Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change combined with their obligations under the 2030 Development Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals to promote sustainable and inclusive development.
GGGI’s systematic value chain-based model spans diagnosis & assessment, planning and implementation stages of green growth delivery. By linking policy and implementation along the value chain, GGGI supports its Member States to develop and implement green growth plans and strategies, translated into green investment plans and financing vehicles aligned with national priorities, and supported by sharing of knowledge and best practices. Importantly, this culminates in the design, financing and implementation of green growth projects.
Each component is accompanied by a systematic appraisal process that captures the learning and application of experience and knowledge from programs and projects and ensures the robustness of GGGI’s advice and assistance.
GGGI focuses its programming on 5 global priority areas, which together cover 11 solutions for achieving green growth:
