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.
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.
Thursday 12 January
8:00 - 9:00 - Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks
Francisco Barnés (INE)Mario Molina (UCSD)Marianne Fay (World Bank)
1a. Welfare measurement + performance metricsModerator:Danny Leipziger (George Washington Univ.)Speakers:Kirk Hamilton (World Bank)Paul Schreyer (OECD)Paul Ekins (Univ. College London)Fulai Sheng (UNEP)
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
2a. Natural resource managementModerator:Alice Kaudia (Environment Secretary, Kenya)Contributed papers:Jeffrey Vincent (Duke Univ.)Urvashi Narain (World Bank)Other speakers:Pavan Sukhdev (GIST Advisory)
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.
See also this blog post on innovation and green growth, written by conference participant Mark Dutz.
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).
To learn about the conference outcomes, and for notes from each of the sessions, please download the Conference Summary (pdf).
Below are the contributed papers, background papers, and presentation slides, including a handful whose authors will not be able to present at the conference.
Plenary 1: Framing the debateHeal, Geoffrey et al (link)Smulders, Sjak and Withagen, Cees (link) (slides)