​In June 2013, the OSLO Consortium initiated the public-private dialogue “New Opportunities from Natural Wealth Management” in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Out of the dialogue, five practical lessons were identified to scale up green growth in the region. Christina Wollesen, Siv Øystese and Simone Quatrini from the Global Mechanism outline why these are a good place to start for any economy that’s putting green growth on the agenda.

Luc Willems, Vice-secretary-general of the Benelux Union and Hans Mooren, Senior policy advisor, Secretariat-General of the Benelux Union, discuss the complexity of measuring and monitoring green growth in cross-border regions and present findings from the joint OECD-Benelux project aimed at defining solutions.

Nidhi Kalra, Senior Decision Scientist at the World Bank, introduces new methodologies to help policy-makers make better decisions when faced with uncertainty and disagreement. In a series of upcoming blog posts, she and her colleagues will present concepts and examples of how this innovative work is being applied on the ground.

Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Economist with the World Bank, presents new research from the World Bank and the OECD on how climate change, rapid urbanization, and subsiding land are putting the world's coastal cities at increasing risk of dangerous and costly flooding.

Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics, present findings on the link between the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and patenting for low-carbon technologies.

Chris Beaton, Research and Communications Officer for IISD, discusses the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies, the challenges with removing them, and the path to reform, including an introduction to the Global Subsidy Initiative’s latest publication A Guidebook to Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform.

Jan Corfee-Morlot, Senior Policy Analyst and Environment and Development Team Leader, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, shares her insights on the OECD's recent publication "Putting Green Growth at the Heard of Development."

Ziga Zarnic, of the OECD Environment Directorate, outlines the importance of establishing a common basis to build and mainstream a green growth measurement framework, and introduces the recent GGKP scoping paper "Moving towards a Common Approach on Green Growth Indicators."

Anja von Moltke, Acting Head of UNEP's Trade, Policy and Planning Unit, outlines the imperative for greening international trade, as presented in the new UNEP Report: "Green Economy and Trade - Trends, Challenges and Opportunities."

Marcelo Giugale, the World Bank’s Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa, discusses how to make growth greener without slowing it down.