The paper explores the concept of ‘green growth’ as it has emerged in international policy discourse over recent years. Identifying the core meaning of the concept and sister terms such as ‘green economy’, it relates green growth to the prior concept of sustainable development.
Rapid economic growth in India during the last two decades has accentuated the demand for energy and natural resources related to water, land and forests.
On 18 November at 9:15 am CET, The Geneva Trade Platform, UNEP Environment and Trade Hub, and the Graduate Institute's Global Governance Center are organising an event entitled "
Countries, including members of the G20, should strengthen the credibility of their pledges to limit or reduce annual emissions of greenhouse gases in order to build confidence in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The world's first cities were in the Uruk cluster in Mesopotamia. The largest was Ur, which appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh (one of the earliest known works of literature, set around 3,500 BCE). Extending over 60 hectares, Ur was home to about 24,000 people.