On 14 December 2015 the GGKP launched its Inclusiveness Research Committee with an in-person meeting held at the OECD.
Inclusive green growth is essential to meet the development needs of the world’s poor, while ensuring environmental sustainability and improving social welfare. However, large gaps still exist in our understanding of the linkages between economy policies, environment regulations and their social implications. The GGKP Inclusiveness Research Committee has been established to explore the social consequences and benefits of implementing green growth strategies, including their impact on employment, gender, income and inequality.
The Inclusiveness Research Committee draws together experts from across 18 organizations and is co-chaired by Shardul Agarwala from the OECD, Shailly Kedia from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Raymond Torres from the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Over the past two years, the GGKP has established seven research committees on various topics to support its core objective of identifying and addressing knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice. The topic of “inclusiveness” will also be the theme of the next GGKP Annual Conference, to be hosted by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) from 5-6 September 2016 in the Republic of Korea.