Underpinning all dimensions of the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) is a focus on robust economic research and policy analysis. In addition to relying on in-house capacity, the GEI is leveraging significant green economy expertise within its global network of partners, which includes other UN organizations, academic institutes, think tanks, businesses, and environmental groups. This emerging “community of practice” has expertise in:

• Analysing challenges and opportunities in specific green sectors, including agriculture, cities, fisheries, forests, green buildings, industry, renewable energy, tourism, transport, waste management and water;
• Generating quantitative analysis and developing macroeconomic models that assess the impact of green investments; and
• Identifying the enabling conditions and policy options for making a shift towards a green economy.

Most GEI research efforts are currently focused on the development of GEI’s flagship product, the Green Economy Report, and managing the development of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity series of reports.  The Green Economy Report builds on two other research products the Global Green New Deal Policy Brief, and the Green Jobs Report.

Other GEI research activities are focused on providing support for GEI’s national and regional advisory services  and partnership initiatives.

GEI Research Products
Global Green New Deal Update				A Global Green New Deal, Policy brief March 2009       [Arabic | Chinese | French |   Russian | Spanish]
Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World				Rethinking the Economic Recovery: A Global Green New Deal

Further Resources
Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World				UNEP-WTO Report on Trade and Climate Change: [ English | French | Spanish ]
Training Resource Manual: The Use of Economic Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management				Towards Sustainable Fisheries Access Agreements - Issues and Options at the World Trade Organization
Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa				UNEP Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative Report
Reforming Energy Subsidies Opportunities to Contribute to the Climate Change Agenda				Financing a Global Deal on Climate Change
Energy Efficiency and the Finance Sector