“Burkina Faso is now one of the six African countries having its long-term low-carbon strategy as required by the Paris agreement,” said Dr. Augustin KABORE, Minister of the Environment, Water and Sanitation on December 16th, 2022, during the validation of the document named ‘2050 vision for low-carbon emission and climate resilient development’. This national document […]

From the 22nd to 23rd of February 2022, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with the team of the Permanent Secretary of the National Council for Sustainable Development (SP\CNDD), organized a capacity building workshop for stakeholders in the process of establishing a national strategy, that will align greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions with long-term […]

Glasgow, November 4, 2021 – The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), and IDDRI held a joint side event at the NDC Partnership Pavilion at COP26, inviting representatives from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria to share experiences and lessons from the development of Long Term Visions and Strategies for […]

August 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have signed a new agreement to work on a preparatory phase for developing a long-term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) in the Solomon Islands. The agreement responds to the country request submitted by the Solomon Islands to […]

Tuesday, August 31, 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Commission (EFCCC) in collaboration with World Resources Institute (WRI), held a three-day project kick-off workshop for Ethiopia’s 2050 Long-Term Low Emissions Development Strategy (LT-LEDs) project in Adama, Ethiopia. A total of 44 participants, including 33 technical experts […]

Port Villa, Vanuatu, Wednesday June 16 – The Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change, Ms Esline Garaebiti, the New Zealand High Commissioner to Vanuatu H.E. Jonathan Schwass, and GGGI Country Representative for Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, and Kiribati, Daniel Muñoz-Smith, met this week to announce the development of a strategy that will put Vanuatu […]

France, though, AFD (public institution that implements France’s policy on development and international solidarity), has committed to finance the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to support the Government of Burkina Faso in the development of a long-term low emission and resilient development strategy (LT-LEDS) for 2050. The strategy, which will be developed under the umbrella […]

On March 11, 2021, the French Development Agency (AFD), the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission of Ethiopia (EFCCC) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) held a launch event for the Long-Term Low Emissions Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) project at the Embassy of France, Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is taking concrete action to better manage adverse […]

Thursday, March 25, 2021 – Today, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Government of Burkina Faso, and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate climate-resilient transition of Burkina Faso through the development of the Long–Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). LT-LEDS in the Paris Agreement are […]