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News • December 17, 2023

Waste to Resources: Improving Municipal Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste Management in Rwanda

17 December 2023, Kigali, Rwanda – The Government of Rwanda through the Ministry of Environment of the Government of Rwanda initiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to strengthen cooperation and technology transfer between the two countries. […]

News • May 24, 2023

KEXIM Bank, KRIC, GGGI HQ Delegation Visit in Rwanda

Enhancing Institutional Capacities for Facilitating the Use of ITMOs Through Electric Mobility Kigali, 17 April 2023 The Government of Rwanda (GoR) has prioritized the transition to e-mobility using a combination of incentives and policies to promote the uptake of Electric Vehicles (EVs). The transfer of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) has been identified as a […]

News • December 16, 2022

Chihuahua mitigará emisiones de CO2 y otros contaminantes mediante el enverdecimiento de parque industriales

Chihuahua, Chih. En una reunión en la que participó la Secretaria María Angélica Granados Trespalacios y el Subsecretario Ulises Fernández Gamboa por parte de la Secretaría de Innovación y Desarrollo Económico (SIDE), además de Camilo Ortega P. Representante de País del Instituto Global para el Crecimiento Verde (GGGI por sus siglas en inglés), y miembros […]

News • April 10, 2022

Official Kick-off of Burkina Faso’s MRV IT Platform

On Tuesday 29th of March 2022 in Ouagadougou, the ministry of the environment, energy, water, and sanitation in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute officially launched the national web based MRV platform. This platform is designed with the technical support of GGGI under Swedish funding. It represents the country transparency framework and serves as […]

News • March 24, 2022

GGGI strengthens capacity on voluntary GHG emissions reporting by large industries and Greenpreneurs in Fiji

    GGGI continues supporting the Climate Change and International Cooperation Division (CCICD) of the Ministry of Economy (MOE) in implementing the Climate Change Act 2021 under the the partnership with New Zealand´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) through Low Emission Climate Resilient Development (LECRD) Program. The Climate Change Act 2021 is an […]

News • November 9, 2021

GGGI Rwanda hosts Training of Trainers Workshop on Electric Bus System Modeling and Optimization

28 October, Kigali, Rwanda, the Global Green Growth Institute(GGGI)  in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda (GoR), through the Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), and the City of Kigali  hosted the hybrid workshop for training of trainers on electric bus system modeling and optimization to build capacity and share lessons learned in […]

News • August 5, 2021

Training Workshops on Greenhouse Gas Inventories (GHGI) in Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; July 27-28, 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD) in Burkina Faso organized two trainings on greenhouse gas inventories (GHGI). These trainings focused in two sectors: energy and industrial processes and product use (IPPU). The production of quality data on […]

News • August 20, 2019

GGGI Lao Team held an introductory meeting on MRV for the Energy Sector

July 26, 2019, Vientiane, Lao PDR – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Lao PDR team in partnership with the Department of Climate Change of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment held an introductory meeting on Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for the Energy sector in preparation for Lao PDR’s reporting commitments under the […]

News • May 31, 2019

Three Ways the Global Green Growth Institute is supporting the Government of Rwanda to Reduce Air Pollution

Ambient air pollution has risen sharply in recent years, especially in urban centers. Increasing rates of congestion combined with rising levels of personal vehicle ownership and limited public transport infrastructure have resulted in cities in sub-Saharan Africa exhibiting some of the highest levels of PM2.5 particulate matter in the world. Recent research has found that […]

News • May 10, 2019

Rwanda Cabinet approves Green Building Minimum Compliance System

The Government of Rwanda in the cabinet meeting held on 3rd April 2019 approved the Ministerial Order determining Urban planning and Building regulations. The Rwanda Green Building Minimum Compliance System which is an Annex to the Ministerial Order along with the revised Rwanda Building Code. The Ministerial Order and the supporting green building annex were officially […]

News • December 19, 2018

Workshop on the National greenhouse gas Inventory System (NIS-GHG)

December 19, Rabat, Morocco – Abdelmajid Bennis, GGGI’s Morocco Program Officer represented the GGGI Morocco team in a workshop organized by the Secretary of State in charge of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The workshop convened representatives from various sectors, as well as experts from international organizations. This ambitious […]

News • October 19, 2018

Workshop on Lao PDR’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System

October 20, Vientiane, Lao PDR – On October 18-19, the GGGI Lao PDR team in partnership, with the Department of Climate Change of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and Green Technology Center Korea, held a two-day workshop on National Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) System Development in Lao PDR. The workshop was inaugurated […]