The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an international organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. GGGI interventions are premised on the promise of green growth—a simultaneous advancement of economic growth, environmental sustainability, poverty reduction, and social inclusiveness.…
Aquatic ecosystems face unprecedented threats. Ocean ecosystems are facing multiple pressures, ranging from climate change and acidification to pollution, habitat loss, and excessive fishing. Freshwater ecosystems face multiple stresses. These range from alteration to the hydrological cycle due to climate change to over-abstraction and pollution of surface and groundwater. These stresses threat…
Climate change is a growing major threat to human and natural systems on our planet. The world must focus on scaling up climate mitigation action that minimizes trade-offs and maximizes synergies with other government economic and development priorities, including protecting nature and promoting an equitable post-pandemic recovery. In this context, the GEF is very well positioned to help accele…
The rapid transformation of the world through urbanization has been a defining feature of the last century. This shift has elevated cities into economic powerhouses that foster innovation, economic development, and social interactions. However, this has come at a cost: often prioritizing immediate economic gains, the fast and unplanned expansion of cities around the world has created a variety …
Diverse cultivation systems like agroforestry, crop rotation and intercropping systems support biodiversity and, in the past, made agriculture a main factor in conserving it. The sustainable agriculture, however, was exchanged in many places of the world by a land use model that segregates agricultural production from areas managed for biodiversity conservation. Thus, favoring monocultures and …
The Global Fund was designed to evolve to best meet the needs of a changing world context. More than 50 percent of the burden of each of the three diseases and the majority of the world’s poor now live in countries classified by the World Bank as middle income but still varying greatly in terms of quality, access, and capacity of health service provision. Simultaneously, concentrations of dis…