Billets marqués ‘ sustainable development ’

China’s state-owned enterprises as climate policy actors

6 mai 2013

This report, written by Fridtjof Nansen Institute for the Nordic Council of Ministers, discusses the role of state owned enterprises on the electricity and steel sectors, for instance, in upgrading technologies, centralizing operations and developing alternative energy sources


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What the United States and the United Kingdom can teach each other about climate change and sustainable development at the national level

3 mai 2013

As the urgency of climate change, biodiversity loss, severe poverty, and other global environmental and development challenges continues to grow, concerted international action to address them is becoming even harder. National efforts are thus more important than ever. An important example is the United Kingdom and the United States, which have stronger ties with...
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Design education for a sustainable future

28 mars 2013

Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a new type of design professional, one that is deeply collaborative, ethically grounded, empathically...
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Mobilizing climate investment

26 février 2013

This WRI report draws on the experiences of six developing countries to examine how public climate finance can help meet the significant investment needs of developing countries by creating attractive conditions for scaled-up investment in low-carbon energy


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Measuring progress towards an inclusive green economy

4 décembre 2012

This new UNEP report provides countries with a practical guide on how indicators can measure progress towards an inclusive, resource-efficient, green economy, and support new national policies to assess human well-being and quality of life... (© UNEP)


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Megatrends in global interaction

8 novembre 2012

This volume is designed to explore and discuss correlations between these global trends, or megatrends: Global Governance, Demographic Change and Migration, Energy and Natural Resources, Global Security, Biodiversity, and Economic Globalization.


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Green growth: economic theory and political discourse

7 novembre 2012

The concept of ‘green growth’ has burst onto the international policy scene in the past four years.  Identifying the core meaning of the concept and sister terms such as ‘green economy’, this paper locates green growth within the longer tradition of environmental discourses, notably that of sustainable development...


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Pricing the planet’s future:
 the economics of discounting in an uncertain world

26 octobre 2012

Through his new book, Christian Gollier provides a solid framework for decision-making in the field of environmental economics, applying the economic theory known as "discounting" to meet sustainable development objectives for the future of our planet... (© TSE)


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Consistent assessments of pathways toward sustainable development and climate stabilization

22 octobre 2012

This study quantitatively assesses some alternative scenarios using integrated assessment models, and provides several indicators relating to sustainable development and climate change, such as indicators of income (per capita GDP), poverty, water stress, food access, sustainable energy use, energy security, and ocean acidification, with high consistencies among the indicators within a scenario.


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A new blueprint for a green economy

19 octobre 2012

The present book first summarizes the main messages from Blueprint for a Green Economy, published in 1989, and explains why, given rapid and widespread global environmental degradation, they are still relevant. The book then examines the progress since Blueprint for a Green Economy in implementing policies and other measures to improve environmental valuation, accounting...
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International trade and sustainability : A survey

4 juin 2012

This Larefi working paper aims at reviewing the literature on international trade and sustainability. In the neoclassical sense sustainability is interpreted as the imperative to maintain constant consumption over time...


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Sustainable energy for all

23 mai 2012

SE4ALL's Action Agenda, containing summaries of key action areas to realize SE4ALL and an implementation roadmap to begin working towards that goal.


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Inclusive green growth : the pathway to sustainable development

10 mai 2012

This World Bank's report examines policies and best practices for crafting a green growth strategy.


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Sustainable low-carbon city development in China

9 mai 2012

This World Bank report aims to provide central government policymakers and those of municipalities, cities and townships in China with practical lessons on sustainable low-carbon development, based on the World Bank’s experience and its long-term relationship with many Chinese provinces and cities.


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