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Publications
Co-Chair’s Summary from PrepCom 2 now available
The Co-Chairs’ of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Second Preparatory Committee Meeting, have published a Summary Report, detailing their conclusions from the event which took place at the UN Headquarters in New York on 7-8 March, 2011. More
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UNEP releases ‘Green Economy: Developing Countries Success Stories’ report
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published a report listing 8 different success stories from across the globe on the implementation of the green economy. More
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UNCTAD publish ‘The Road to Rio+20’ report
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released a report titled ‘The Road to Rio+20’. More |
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UNDESA Policy Brief No.12: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has released its 12th Policy Brief document, in which it calls for a global New Deal to revive the world’s economies in a socially and ecologically sustainable manner.More
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Experts present Transition to a Green Economy paper at 2nd PrepCom
A panel of leading academics and industry experts have prepared a paper titled The Transition to a Green Economy: Benefits, Challenges and Risks from a Sustainable Development Perspective, which was presented to the Second Preparatory Committee Meeting for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. More |
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UNEP publishes Green Jobs report
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has commissioned a report titled Green Jobs: Towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon world. More |
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Pardee Center publishes ‘Beyond Rio+20: Governance for A Green Economy’
As an intellectual contribution to the preparations for Rio+20, Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future commissioned a group of prominent experts to discuss the role of institutions in the actualization of a green economy in the context of sustainable development. More |
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Stakeholder Forum Publications
Stakeholder Forum has produced an a number of publications on the Green Economy and Sustainable Development Governance towards Rio+20. Publications include: “Principles for the Green Economy” produced with BioRegional, “Global Sustainability Targets” as well as the first edition of “A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Development Governance” produced with the Commonwealth Secretariat. More |
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Media – Podcasts
Coming soon.. Earth Talks: The Green Economy 101; So what’s it all about?
In our first podcast we will be sitting down with Tim Jenkins, who manages the Great Transition Initiatives work at the New Economics Foundation including the development of a new economic model, establishing a new economic commission, Victor Anderson, Senior Economist at WWF and author of Alternative Indicators and Manager of Prosperity without growth, and Phillip Pearson, Senior Policy Officer at the Trade Union Council’s Economic and Social Affairs Department, to get to grips with the concept of a green economy.
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