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Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP)

Organisation: 
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Under the first phase of the EC-funded Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP), UNEP launched the report, “Green Economy & Trade: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities” presenting six of the most promising sectors for Green Economy and Trade.

Sierra Leone: Transitioning Towards Green Growth; Stocktaking and the Way Forward

Organisation: 
African Development Bank (AfDB)

Since 2012, the Bank has been providing technical assistance to its regional member countries for engaging on a green growth pathway.

Guyana Thematic Report on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Organisation: 
GENIVAR Trinidad and Tobago Limited, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Country: 
Guyana
Thematic Report on Access and Benefit-Sharing assesses the capacity-building needs for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) of genetic resources in Guyana. It fully assessed the capacity building needs and priorities of the Government of Guyana (GoG) as it seeks to establish protocols and mechanisms for granting access to, and benefit-sharing of its genetic resources.
May 2017

20 Years of BioTrade: Connecting People, the Planet and Markets

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Twenty years ago, the BioTrade Initiative was launched as the UNCTAD response to implementing the 1992 Earth Summit’s Agenda 21, the blueprint for sustainable development action into the twenty-first century. 

 

June 2012

Trade and Biodiversity: The BioTrade Experiences in Latin America

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
This paper illustrates the potential for developing sustainable environment management practices such as BioTrade in Latin America.
December 2016

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans: Natural Catalysts for Accelerating Action on Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

In 2010, the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to an ambitious set of 20 targets, called the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, as part of their commitment to the CBD Strategic Plan.

November 2017

Lessons Learnt from 20 Years of Revenue Sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC)
For the past 20 years a revenue-sharing scheme has been in place for communities surrounding Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. The learning evaluation Lessons Learnt from 20 Years of Revenue Sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda looks at how revenue sharing might become more effective and more equitable.
September 2012

Green Economy Sectoral Study: BioTrade – A Catalyst for Transitioning to a Green Economy in Namibia

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
This study highlights opportunities but also the many challenges that Namibia has faces for reducing socio-economic inequalities, maintaining economic growth and achieving a higher level of sustainable use and trade of biodiversity-based products.

Guyana Traditional Knowledge Incorporation into Biodiversity-Assessment Report 2009

Organisation: 
The Consultancy Group (TCG)
Country: 
Guyana
Guyana Traditional Knowledge Incorporation into Biodiversity-Assessment Report 2009 presents information and analysis on the assessment of capacity and current preservation aspects at several levels, a review of the current legislation aimed at promoting and protecting traditional knowledge and an inventory on traditional knowledge and sustainable conservation.
June 2018

Before It’s Too Late: Deriving sustainable value from wildlife in the western Congo Basin

World Bank Group
Before It’s Too Late: Deriving sustainable value from wildlife in the western Congo Basin presents lessons from international experience for creating economic value from wildlife to help address the rapid decline of wildlife resources in the the Western Congo Basin while contributing to both poverty alleviation and conservation.

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