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This activity report summarizes how the GEF has supported the sustainable development for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which includes the development of the green economy in the SIDS.

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In May, 2014, the London School of Economics published a report on Copenhagen as a «green economy leader,» listing eight drivers of its green economy.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVANCOUVER — Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. NDP and B.C. Green Party announcement regarding their intent to cooperate in the legislature: «It's clear that British Columbians voted for change in this election and support the NDP and Greens» objectives: building a clean economy and putting...

«In the next five years, China's economy will maintain a growth rate of 7 to 8 percent thanks to the growth opportunities offered by the regional disparity,» said Stephen Green, Standard Chartered's chief economist for China.

About LACI: LACI is a nonprofit formed at the behest of the City of Los Angeles in October 2011 to build a world - class cleantech innovation hub and to accelerate LA's green economy.

Founded in 1993, Sightline Institute is committed to making the Northwest a global model of sustainability, with strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment.

See sustainable and functioning economies with minimal disruptions, rather see a global economy with some green shoots, but weighty asset values globally, and generally, near deflationary conditions despite, 9 years after the GFC began, a period of what I would describe as sub-par, when there has been a continued rise of global debt, in some paces as China, great verticality in such.

«The economy is at the root of the Democrats» problem, but it doesn't mean that religion and other demographic factors cease to matter,» said John Green, a scholar at the University of Akron who specializes in faith and politics.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Every packaging manufacturer in the land has got to pay it, so it's not altering your competition with the other manufacturers and the other is that for that very small amount of money you're buying reputational improvement; litter reduction; better materials; a circular economy; job creation; a greener country; leading the way over the rest of the UK — you're buying a whole load of benefits for Scotland.»

Chobani, maker of America's # 1 selling Greek Yogurt brand, and Green America, the nation's leading green economy organization, announced today that they have partnered together in an effort to improve cattle feed in the U.S., including options for non-genetically modified and organic grGreen America, the nation's leading green economy organization, announced today that they have partnered together in an effort to improve cattle feed in the U.S., including options for non-genetically modified and organic grgreen economy organization, announced today that they have partnered together in an effort to improve cattle feed in the U.S., including options for non-genetically modified and organic grains.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Farmer - Veteran Coalition The mission of the Farmer - Veteran Coalition (FVC) is to mobilize our food and farming community to create healthy and viable futures for America's veterans by enlisting their help in building our green economy, rebuilding our rural communities, and securing a safe and healthy food supply for all.

«That kind of radical action not only creates jobs but it's good for the kind of green economy we need in the future.»

«Conservative critics are getting in the way of growth for our economy, and green growth,» he told Sky News» Murnaghan programme.

Departing from liberalism in a radical manner, a green republican perspective on the economy is therefore interested not simply in the efficiency or productivity of economic relations.

A green republican conception of political economy, however, is one that also begins its analysis from the observation that we live in societies with economies nested within them.

However, the most reassuring remark was that Greening claimed «that the Department for Transport is slap bang in the middle of what the government is trying to do in getting the economy back on its feet».

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

A plan to offer a $ 7.6 billion subsidy to the company controlling most of New York's nuclear power plants will cost the City Of Buffalo about $ 3.35 million in added utility costs, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for a Green Economof New York's nuclear power plants will cost the City Of Buffalo about $ 3.35 million in added utility costs, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for a Green EconomOf Buffalo about $ 3.35 million in added utility costs, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for a Green Economy.

Through bold actions and commitment, New York can take the lead in the green economy and serve as an example to the rest of the nation.»

It's this construction of low - carbon generation that will bring vast potential to the UK economy in the form of green jobs.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

«The Erie County Control Board played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District).

«What we need is to accelerate a just transition plan to ensure workers are prepared for jobs in the new green energy economy — not a dangerous deal that puts millions of people in the greater New York City metropolitan area and Western NY at risk,» said Manna Jo Greene, environmental action director for the Hudson River advocacy group Clearwater.

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

«Our forests are a much loved part of our national natural heritage, and will play a pivotal role in the green economy and our low carbon future,» shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said.

With five more years of austerity to go, let's watch the polls for green shoots in public confidence in the economy, as well as movements in ratings of the competence Osborne and the government.

We respectfully ask for you to act in support of these good paying jobs and meaningful investment in our local economies by green - lighting Caithness II.»

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«It can be done quickly through tax credits and benefits, and it supports immediate spending in the grass roots of the economy,» said Ms Green.

As outlined in Erie County's Economic Development Plan, «Initiatives for a Smart Economy», the development of an inter-departmental Green Team focusing on energy reduction and resource conservation throughout Erie County operations is a priority in the revitalization of our community and eEconomy», the development of an inter-departmental Green Team focusing on energy reduction and resource conservation throughout Erie County operations is a priority in the revitalization of our community and economyeconomy.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The conclusions of the NEA have been reflected in the white paper with a provision for an annual statement of green accounts, highlighting where the economy has taken from nature and where it has invested.

In his address, the Chairman, Asteven Group, Dr. Sunny Akpoyibo congratulated the graduands for their interest in green economy and urged them to exploit opportunities therein to become employers of labouIn his address, the Chairman, Asteven Group, Dr. Sunny Akpoyibo congratulated the graduands for their interest in green economy and urged them to exploit opportunities therein to become employers of labouin green economy and urged them to exploit opportunities therein to become employers of labour.

Ex-Officer Is First in C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak It was a duty to leak and embarrass Bush, but you'll go away if you leak on Obama Net job gain under Obama: 28,000 The economy is getting better, yeah right Obama's inaugural committee on the receiving end of transparency complaints A little late Gov. Deval Patrick: Rep. Barney Frank would make a «great interim senator» for Massachusetts Top Deval adviser no fan of Barney Frank's Senate bid Even in Massachusetts there are some that believe enough is enough That's hypocritic - Al We all know Al Gore likes all things green.

By Howie Hawkins and Steve Breyman http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/whats-wrong-cuomos-energy-plan (Mr. Hawkins serves as Full Employment Council, Vice Chair in the Economy Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet and is the Green nominee for Governor of New York.

On Facebook, he posted, at the end of a statement, «In short, the local economy is good, the Town facilities are being improved, the Town's finances are sound and the community's desire to be part of the green movement is being answered.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has accused Chancellor George Osborne of «misunderstanding» the role of environmental policies in the economy.

«After helping to lead the debate in changing the balance of our economy in a more sustainable direction, you are now turning your back on green industry and risk undermining the UK's growing reputation around the world for leadership in this field,» he wrote.

Nick Robinson looked at the latest polls ahead of elections on 22 May, a possible rise in interest rates, and the state of the UK economy with Conservative Damian Green and Labour's Mary Creagh, along with Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil.

On Sandy Anniversary, the Green Party calls for Full Employment through Climate Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 years.

«Under the guise of «clean energy,» the nuclear industry is about to get its hands on our money in order to save its own profits,» claimed Jessica Azulay, program director for New York - based Alliance for a Green Economy.

«When I am governor I will push this state ambitiously, aggressively toward a 100 % renewal energy economy,» said Nixon, who said thousands of green jobs could be created, including in communities hard hit by «corporate polluters».

And he stressed that the Liberal Democrats had a clear set of priorities: «It's the economy first, it's a fairer Britain in terms of taxes, it's investment in the green economies of the future, it's investment in children — and political reform.»

«The participation of the U.S. is very important to China because these are the two most important economies in the world,» said Lingling Mu, general manager of the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation Network on Green Supply Chain.

Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a coauthor of a recent report quantifying the green economy, notes that Europe and China are investing heavily in solar, wind, and other renewables, anticipating a long - term payoff.

The green - energy sector in the United States is growing at twice the rate of the economy at large.

The green economy continues to show vitality, business leaders say, despite the near - total collapse of global climate talks, stalemate in Washington, D.C., and polls showing decreased urgency to tackle global warming

With the world economy still stuck in recession, the allure of the argument that economic growth can be green and that a new era of free world trade will positively benefit the planet's ecosystems is growing.