The booklet Green-win Narratives is developed through the course of the GREEN-WIN project within the Global Dialogue and the detailed studies carried out by the project partners. The GREEN-WIN project is a major international transdisciplinary research collaboration supported by the EU. It applies a solution-oriented approach targeted at increasing the understanding of links between climate action, economic development, and sustainability.
The project critically assesses where and under which conditions win-win and green growth strategies that meet climate, economic and sustainability goals work in practice and where fundamental trade-offs must be faced. The project team is focusing on four particular themes that have been identified by practitioners and policymakers:
This booklet is the collection of the five sets of bottom-up green growth narratives that show the availability of a range of policies at different levels that can achieve climate wins. The narratives presented in this booklet are:
This policy brief, Transformative Narratives for Climate Action: Win-win strategies linking climate and sustainable development goals, discusses the key role of Transformative Narratives for catalysing climate action and elaborates some of the empirically-grounded transformative narrativ
Climate change does not only pose increasing risks to local livelihoods and economies, but also provides a large array of opportunities for social innovation and international collaboration.
Technological diffusion is recognized as a key pillar of climate change mitigation in environmental agreements.
Green small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent a key win-win strategy and are one of the main drivers of green transformation.