Inaugural Conference, Mexico City

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) held its inaugural conference, "Green Growth: Addressing the Knowledge Gaps," January 12-13, 2012, in Mexico City Mexico. The conference took stock of the current understanding of the economics of green growth; engaged researchers and practitioners in an ongoing dialogue to increase understanding of how green growth approaches can be applied in the field; identified knowledge gaps and established priorities for knowledge-building work and implementation; and launched follow-on efforts. The conference location allowed attendees to benefit from Mexico’s experiences from taking a leading role internationally in advocating pathways to green development.

Here are a few key documents. See the "Outcomes" and "Papers & Presentation" tabs for a full collection of conference materials.
     Full conference program (pdf)
     Speaker/moderator bios (pdf)
     Participants list (pdf)

The conference convened leading scholars and experienced practitioners to address a number of potential connections between economic growth and environmental resource management.

GGKP would like to acknowledge the invaluable support of Mexico's National Institute of Ecology (INE) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, without whom this conference would not be possible.

Conference Program

8:00 - 9:00 - Breakfast & Registration

9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks
     Francisco Barnés (INE)
     Mario Molina (UCSD)
     Marianne Fay (World Bank)

13:00-14:00 – Lunch 

Coverage

Conference

For a brief summary of the conference, visit the World Bank (link). More detailed documents capturing outcomes and agreements will be available soon under the Outcomes tab.

Seee also this blog post on innovation and green growth, written by conference participant Mark Dutz.

Memorandum of Understanding

On January 11, 2012, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and World Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formally launch the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. To learn more, see their joint press release (pdf - English; pdf - Español).

Outcomes

To learn about the conference outcomes, and for notes from each of the sessions, please download the Conference Summary (pdf).

Papers & Presentations

Below are the contributed papers, background papers, and presentation slides, including a handful whose authors will not be able to present at the conference. 

Note: Some participants have reported problems downloading the papers using Google Chrome.