News • August 27, 2019
With the Government of Nepal pledging funds to electric buses, GGGI and its partners head to India to gather experience on electric bus procurement and deployment.
On July 21-27, 2019, GGGI, in coordination with the Ministry of Forests and Environment and Sajha Yatayat, a Nepal-based transportation company, organized a 6-day knowledge exchange across India. The delegation of officials, mainly from the Government of Nepal, including the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Province 3, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Municipality of […]
News • August 19, 2019
Moving forward with Nepal’s first ‘Provincial Electric Mobility Strategy’, the Government of Province 3 and GGGI hold a technical consultation
On August 1, 2019, GGGI and the Government of Province 3 held a half-day technical consultation, to support customized development of the Provincial Electric Mobility Strategy, the first of such to be prepared in Nepal. The consultation was attended by partners and representatives from the government, development, private, cooperative and research sectors. The Government of […]
News • July 8, 2019
ESCAP Project – 1st Stakeholder Workshop on Data Audit to Support the Electrification of the Transport Sector
July 1, Suva – On June 28, the GGGI Fiji Office, in partnership with its government counterpart the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) and donor funding support from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), delivered a one day national stakeholder workshop on Data Audit and Data Management Assessment […]
News • April 30, 2019
Electric trikes in San Vicente Bring “Ecotown” to Life
April 30, Palawan, Philippines – Electric tricycles (E-trikes) have already started to roam the streets of San Vicente thanks to a grant deal facilitated by GGGI and financed by the Asian Development Bank through the Department of Energy, which provided 50 units of e-trikes amounting to nearly half a million US dollars. This is one […]
News • November 27, 2018
GGGI joins the Coalition for Urban Transitions to accelerate the transition to green growth in Mexican Cities
Mexico City, November 27, 2018—The Mexico office of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) joined the World Resources Institute Mexico (WRI Mexico), C40, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), and UN Habitat […]
News • November 12, 2018
GGGI Supports Pacific Islands Transport Forum and Expo in Fiji
November 12, Suva, Fiji – The Pacific Islands Transport Forum and Expo was hosted this week by the Government of Fiji in conjunction with the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fjji. The three-day event drew over one hundred participants representing the private sector, governments, and other […]
News • July 27, 2018
GGGI and Government of Nepal publish National Action Plan for Electric Mobility to support NDC implementation
The Ministry of Forests and Environment prepared Nepal’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2016, by gathering targets, strategies and policy goals from across the federal government to produce an ambitious and multi-sectoral contribution. However, since the submission and adoption of Nepal’s NDC, implementation has been limited. Of the fourteen targets in the NDC, four focus on climate […]
News • February 6, 2018
Nepal drives forward with electric mobility at national and municipal levels
On February 6, the GGGI Nepal team in partnership with the Ministry of Population and Environment, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Sajha Yatayat, a forward-looking bus operator cooperative in Kathmandu, held a high-level dissemination and strategy seminar to share findings and explore opportunities for moving forward with electric mobility in the country. […]
News • January 23, 2018
Vietnam commits to green growth: Deputy PM
Hanoi (VNA) – Viet Nam takes the matter of saving energy and resources and protecting the environment serious, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said while receiving Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Frank Rijsberman in Hanoi on January 23. Green growth is a need and a must of all nations in the world, […]
News • January 23, 2018
GGGI Director-General Frank Rijsberman holds a press conference with journalists in Viet Nam
On January 23, GGGI Director-General Frank Rijsberman held a press conference with a group of 10 local journalists in Hanoi. During the press conference, he said “Vietnam needs to take the opportunity to promote renewable energy, which will have the dual benefit of reducing emissions and creating green jobs while decreasing the cost of energy production.” […]