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Green Economy Coalition

CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)

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Time to turn the PAGE?

Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

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Green lessons for the blue economy

The faces of some of the experts who contributed their thoughts about a green economy (Image: GEC)

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Leading experts set out their vision for a green economy

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

A migrant bamboo farmer harvests bamboo shoots in Tianlin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The UN PAGE conference was told China is reskilling one million workers from forestry into other industries (Photo: Nick Hogarth/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Highs and lows of the transition to an inclusive green economy

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Forest business incubation: the heartbeat of healthy landscape livelihoods

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Automation and inequality: the changing world of work in the global South

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Managing the environmental and social risks of hydropower: private and public roles

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Informality and inclusive green growth

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Pro-poor, inclusive green growth: experience and a new agenda

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Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal

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Smallholders in Kenya pack flowers for the UK market. IIED and partners are looking at how to develop fair and sustainable trade and economic development (Photo: IIED)

IIED to host Twitter chat on how to move to economies that are green and fair

News, Mar 2017

IIED at ministerial green economy conference

Article, Mar 2017

A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Why social inclusion matters for green growth

Blog, Aug 2016

An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Towards an inclusive blue economy

Blog, Jun 2016

Chris at his roadside food stall. His day starts at 4pm and lasts until 10pm (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos. Pictures for IIED and Hivos)

Photo exhibition highlights varied and vibrant informal economies

Blog, Mar 2016

Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Green grows the informal economy

Blog, Mar 2016

A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons from the informal sector

Blog, Feb 2016

The sale of matoke in a market near Fort Portal, Uganda: green growth planning must take account of the informal economy (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Does green growth miss the majority?

Blog, Feb 2016

Four examples of informal economic activity (Photos: IIED)

The biggest 'private sector': what place for the informal economy in green and inclusive growth?

News, Jan 2016

Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas

Blog, Dec 2015

The focus of Green Economy Coalition convener Oliver Greenfield is on the SDG targets and indicators, and how that can lead to a green economy (Image: IIED)

Sustainable goals for a sustainable green economy

News, Sep 2015

A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality

Article, Jul 2015