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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Tags : China, Energy Sector, environment, renewable energy, steel industry, sustainable development, welfare
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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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Tags : biodiversity, climate change, sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, United Kingdom
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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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Tags : éducation, sustainable development
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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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Tags : Climate Finance, emerging country, Energy Finance, Green Climate Fund, india, Indonesia, Investment, low carbon, low carbon development, Mexico, renewable energy, South Africa, sustainable development, thailand, Tunisia
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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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Tags : green economy, quality of life, sustainable development
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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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Tags : global governance, sustainable development
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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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Tags : climate change, environment, environmental innovation, green growth, green jobs, green Keynesianism, growth theory, market failure, resources, sustainable development
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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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Tags : environmental economics, sustainable development
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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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Tags : climate change, Integrated Assessment Model, sustainable development
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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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Tags : environmental policy, sustainable development
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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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Tags : International Trade, sustainable development
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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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Tags : clean energy, sustainable development
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This World Bank's report examines policies and best practices for crafting a green growth strategy.
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Tags : sustainable development
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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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Tags : China, city, sustainable development
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