The guide, titled "Green Growth: Implications for development planning," explores how decision makers create a vision and strategy for green growth, the skills that planners need to work effectively with the range of green growth tools available, and how they assess which tools are right for them.
20 July 2011: The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has launched a guide titled “Green Growth: Implications for development planning,” which focuses on the role of economic tools in planning for green growth.
The guide is aimed primarily at national planners and policy advisers in developing countries and explores the following questions: How do decision makers create a vision and strategy for green growth? What skills do planners need to work effectively with the range of green growth tools available? And how do they assess which tools are right for them?
The Guide concludes that green growth planning needs to be an iterative process, adapting to local developments over time and responding to the needs of national and local stakeholders. The Guide includes case studies in Borneo and Rwanda to highlight how stakeholder participation in green growth planning can work in practice.
The CDKN Guide to Green Growth is the first in a series of guides on climate-compatible development planning. A user’s guide based on the experiences of developing country professionals will be released later in 2011. CDKN is a five-year project headquartered in London, UK, and comprised of a number of alliance organisations. [Publication: Green Growth: Implications for Development Planning]