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CitiesWithNature Registry

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
The CitiesWithNature Registry will be a free and open online interface, where any local or other appropriate subnational government can sign up to CitiesWithNature.

carbonn® Climate Registry

Carbonn
The carbonn® Climate Registry is a global reporting platform for cities, towns and regions tackling climate change - created to support transparency, accountability and credibility. The cCR aims to advance global climate action by supporting local and regional governments to strengthen action at the subnational level and providing a wealth of information through integrated reporting that can help raise ambition and action at the national level.

Emissions Trading Registries: Guidance on Regulation, Development and Administration

World Bank Group
The report Emissions Trading Registries: Guidance on Regulation, Development and Administration, prepared by the World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR), provides policymakers and other stakeholders with technical insights and guidance on how to support country-specific decision making and activities related to registry development.

Verified Conservation Areas

Organisation: 
Earthmind

To encourage broader participation in conservation efforts, the Green Development Initiative (hosted by Earthmind) is piloting a public registry, international standard and best-practice toolkit for Verified Conservation Areas (VCAs).

October 2018

Energy Efficiency and Energy Auditing in Bangladesh

Economic Dialogue on Green Growth (EDGG), UK aid

Bangladesh is at a critical stage in its development, being now listed as a middle-income country, and looking to reach upper-middle income status by 2021.

November 2017

Mexico’s efforts to phase out and rationalise its fossilfuel subsidies

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report Mexico’s efforts to phase out and rationalise its fossilfuel subsidies provides a succinct account of the discussions that took place between Mexican officials and the review team, but also within the review team itself. After summarising the key aspects of Mexico’s energy landscape, the report discusses the ongoing reforms of transport fuel pricing.

Anton Cartwright

Green Economy Researcher, African Centre for Cities (UCT)
20 March 2018
Other News

Building for Green Growth in Thailand

Thailand seems likely to emerge as a model of green building in Asia, a region that is urbanizing more rapidly than any other in the world. Last month, the country took a significant step by submitting two Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: greening Thailand's low- and middle-income housing, and greening the country’s government buildings.
7 January 2019
Research

Moving #BeyondGDP - Q&A with Anton Cartwright

Anton Cartwright

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"I think of GDP as a proxy for the well-being that most people desire. At times it is a very poor proxy. It could be improved by expanding the definition of ‘productivity’ and the definition of ‘capital’ in the ‘marginal productivity of capital’ notion that drives growth in most economic models," says Anton Cartwright, green economy researcher at the African Centre for Cities and senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program

Organisation: 
World Bank Group

The PDO is to lay the analytical groundwork to enable the Municipal Government of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Rio Prefeitura) to develop an ambitious, cross-sectoral, low carbon / climate change mitigation program over the next two to four years - with longer t

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