Greenpreneurs is a global business accelerating program run by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Student Energy, and Youth Climate Lab. The program supports entrepreneurs and start-up businesses to develop their green growth ideas into viable business plans. In Cambodia, GGGI has extended the program to waste recycling businesses and green service providers in Battambang […]

On May 19, 2020, Deputy Director and Urban Lead of Green Cities at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI),  Donovan Storey, took part in the GGKP – Sustainability after COVID-19: The Medical Waste Response webinar to discuss how countries can design effective COVID-19 medical waste management strategies. Highlight discussion points included action plans on how the […]

The Ministry of National Development Planning along with PT ITDC Nusantara Utilitas (ITDC NU), which is a subsidiary of Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), and GGGI have initiated a feasibility study on a waste power plant in Nusa Dua, Bali. This study assesses waste composition, waste distribution, the budget, and the law. The first meeting […]

GGGI and the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) once again held theEmpathetic Leadership Training for civil servants. This time, the theme is “Living with Hazardous and Toxic Waste: Threats and Opportunities”, on December 4, 2019, in Cilegon, Banten. Cilegon is an industrial city that produces B3 (hazardous and toxic) waste of almost 24 thousand tons […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia-November 27, 2019 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Cambodia, together with the Ministry of Environment (MoE) and the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD), hosted a high-level meeting on the project “Refuse Derived Fuel Investment”. During the event, GGGI introduced the project and presented the findings of the pre-feasibility study in […]

Phnom Penh, April 29, 2019 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) signed a technical cooperation agreement to jointly improve waste recycling in Battambang. Under the agreement, the two organizations will join forces to reduce the open burning activities and develop waste recycling in Battambang. The partners […]

GGGI participated in the Clean Pacific Roundtable organized by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program, held in Suva, Fiji from August 20 – 22, 2018. The roundtable this year focused on marine litter in the Pacific region. The session was opened by the Prime Minister of Fiji, His Excellency Frank Bainimarama. The Prime […]

In March 2018, the Kiribati Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development (MELAD), the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) hosted the inception meeting for the GEF funded “Ridge to Reef: Testing the integration of Water, Land, Forests & Coastal Management to Preserve Ecosystem Services, Store Carbon, Improve Carbon Resilience and […]

On January 24, the GGGI Colombia team together with experts from the Green Investment Services Unit presented the final results from the study “Innovative business models and financing mechanisms to catalyze private investment for waste to energy projects in Colombia”. The presentation was delivered at the Director of the Environmental and Social Affairs Unit of […]

On December 20, 2017, GGGI together with the SME Development Fund of Vietnam (SMEDF), a public fund of $88m supporting Vietnamese SMEs, co-organized a consultation workshop on the draft Green Credit Handbook which details criteria for prioritizing green, innovative and women-led business proposals in accessing finance at SMEDF. GGGI also presented its international best practice […]