GG A Bridge? Greenpeace letter to Obama. Dear Mr.
President, My Name is Kumi Naidoo, I am the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, I also serve as President of the Global Campaign for Climate Action and serve as Global Ambassador of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. India signals it may be willing to consider emissions target at UN climate talks. By John Parnell The Indian Government could be on the brink of a major shift in its climate change policy, according to reports in India.
The influential Planning Commission is currently working on its 12th five-year plan, which includes agreeing to a global emissions cap prior to developed countries making binding pledges to cut emissions. Indian Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan at the UNFCCC talks in Durban. (Source: UNFCCC/Mark Garten) This would represent a major shift in the Ministry of Environment’s determined stance at the UNFCCC climate change negotiations where it has been insistent on rich countries taking the lead.
Critiques. « Bas carbone, croissance verte » ( Low-Carbon, Green Growth) DeSmogBlog vs Canada Best Practice. Financing GG. Financing video by taxing. WB Loan for HP. Himachal Pradesh has moved a step closer to signing an agreement with the World Bank (WB) to avail a Rs 1,000 crore Development Policy Loan (DPL).
The loan is a first of its kind foreign assistance for environmentally sound and carbon-smart growth in key economic sectors including tourism and hydro-power. Though the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had raised objection regarding issues related to low carbon development initiatives, which was aimed at reducing Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, it finally gave a green signal to the Ministry of Economic Affairs to begin tripartite negotiations with WB and Himachal Pradesh. This is a positive development for Himachal Pradesh. We have provided a revised proposal to the MoEF. The negotiations on availing at leastt the first installment of the loan can begin next month," said State's Additional Chief Secretary (Forest and Environment) Sudripto Roy - who is set to take over as the next Chief Secretary.
Bottom-up? Verify. This report highlights promising examples of successful collaborations already under way, such as India’s National Solar Mission; Kenya’s efforts to design an investment-grade renewable energy strategy; the South Africa Water Partners Network; and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.
These examples offer innovative financing mechanisms and new models for collaborative innovation and engagement of multistakeholder communities. Each partnership offers lessons that will help others to replicate, tailor and scale up similar approaches. Water and Waste Water conglomerates. Business-Managed Government Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) Reference: Bill Marsden, ‘Cholera and the Age of the Water Barons.’
Inviting Private finance. CASE: Pvtizing Waste Delhi. February 13th, 2012 Delhi Waste Wars is a short video documentary directed by Leah Temper and edited by Siobhan McKeown.
A battle is brewing in Delhi, India over access and control to garbage. Haberl Sustainable indicators. CLASS: Stiglitz Report. CASE: ITPs Indonesia. By Winnie Overbeek.
While the big players in the field of tree plantations gather in Sweden, EJOLT reports from the reality of their expansion in the South. The debates on sustainability seem to come from two different planets, until you realize that one planet is actually imposing its will on the other. It boils down to how you define sustainability: for people or for profit? Criminalization of activists and communities struggling against industrial tree plantations in the global South increases. This is closely related to the ongoing and unlimited expansion of these plantations in regions like South Sumatra, Indonesia. Water Pricing. Commodification - Nnimmo Bassey1. Interview Avec Nnimmo Bassey. RSS Plan du site Contact Empreinte | English Deutsch S'abonner à la lettre d'information imprimer Interview avec Nnimmo Bassey: « Green Economy on the move – Comment l’Afrique peut profiter du tournant énergétique ?
» Dans le cadre du projet " Les Paradoxes de la Gestion Durable", AfricAvenir a organisé un forum de dialogue avec le militant d’environnement de Nigéria Nnimmo Bassey, qui a parlé de « Green Economy on the move – Comment l’Afrique peut profiter du tournant énergétique ? Le projet “Les Paradoxes de la Gestion Durable” est finacé par BMZ et Landesstelle für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (LEZ).
Actualités sur le même thême : motivation conférence 2012 documentation News & Informations français. Green economy Valuation. Miller on Accounting. References: dematerialisation. Decoupling, also referred to as dematerialisation of the economy, refers to the disconnection or separation of economic and social well-being from the use of biophysical resources.
According to the MEFA (Material and Energy Flow Analysis) framework, decoupling may occur in at least three relations: (1) economic growth – as measured by GDP growth – may be decoupled from material and energy throughput (an increase in ‘efficiency’ leading to ‘dematerialisation’); (2) material and energy throughput, decoupled from social well-being (‘sufficiency’); and (3) social well-being, as it becomes decoupled from economic growth (‘equity’) (Haberl et al., 2004).
This is shown in Figure 1. PODCAST: Hornborg on land vs. money valuation. Professor Alf Hornborg is best known for his understanding on the concept of ‘ecological unequal exchange’.
He talks on alternative value measurements compared to paper money. “When the UK, in 1850, imported cotton fibre and exported cotton textiles this seemed ‘fair’ but if you quantify the amount of land to produce either of these goods then you find that the UK was depending on 58 hectares of colonies for every hectare of UK soil.” Land and labor used to produce a commodity are highly unequal. Version(Defin)ation. LSE (mid spectrum) Cameron Hepburn and Alex Bowen of the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change explore the potential for green industries to promote economic growth.
This blog is based on a longer paper. The financial crisis and the Great Recession have put economic growth back at the top of the political agenda in most countries. That is not surprising. The surprise is that there has also been a backlash against economic growth, from three completely different camps. GG for Asia: ADB. Resource Use Trends. Global Green Growth Institute. UNESCAP. World Bank May_2012. Green growth is not just for rich nations: World Bank. May 11, 2012 The World Bank urged global governments Thursday to heed the environment when pursuing prosperity, rejecting what it called a myth that green growth is a luxury most countries cannot afford.
The bank in a report said political considerations, entrenched behaviour and a lack of appropriate financing systems are the chief obstacles to environmentally friendly development. It urged governments to rethink their approach to growth, measuring not only what is being produced but what is being used up and polluted in the process.
"There is a frequent misconception that poor countries cannot stimulate growth without degrading the environment and burning the cheapest and dirtiest sources of energy," said Kandeh Yumkella, director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, in a statement. "This simply isn't true. WB: measuring sustainable. Unpacking green growth. UNEP defense. - A full and frank discussion between members of civil society attending the People’s Summit and Achim Steiner, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director took place in down-town Rio. The focus of the often heated and engaging debate centred around views by some of the speakers and members of the audience that a transition towards a Green Economy is a pro-capitalist and an anti-poor agenda that will lead to the ‘commodization’ of nature.
Edwin Vasquez , President of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin, called on governments to finally and properly recognize the land and other rights of indigenous peoples. “Every day and every year these have been infringed by states, governments and companies. Sustainable development has been disappointing and now it is called Green Economy,” he said.
“This is not the change in the model we are looking for,” he said. Green Economy - Green Economy Report. Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication The Green Economy Report is compiled by UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator of decent jobs, and that it is also a vital strategy for the elimination of persistent poverty. The report also seeks to motivate policy makers to create the enabling conditions for increased investments in a transition to a green economy. {*style:<b> Green growth WIKI. GGKP Knowledge Platform. Fad or Fact.