"Environmental Policies and Risk Finance in the Green Sector", by the OECD, aims to better understand the drivers and characteristics of risk finance in the green sector. The paper provides a detailed description of risk finance in the green sector across 29 OECD and BRIICS countries over the period 2005-2010 and identifies the role that policies might have in shaping high-growth investments in this sector. The results suggest that both supply-side policies and environmental deployment policies, designed with a long-term perspective of creating a market for environmental technologies, are associated with higher levels of risk finance relative to more short-term fiscal policies, such as tax incentives and rebates. 

In their new paper, "Close to home: Subnational strategies for climate compatible development", CDKN and ICLEI explore successful strategies and measures for climate resilience and low carbon development that communities and leaders have pursued at the subnational level.  The authors find that opportunities exist at the subnational level because local decision-makers often have a sound understanding of climate trends in their area, based on first-hand experience and local and indigenous knowledge. They have a good sense of solutions that are effective in the local context and they have the ability to mobilize local resources for implementation, including people's time and knowledge. The paper draws on the practical experiences of CDKN's project partners and the broader ICLEI network.

"Green Bonds for a Green Economy: Considerations for Ontario", a policy paper from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, examines the potential for green bonds as a policy tool in the transition to a green economy. The paper provides a brief overview of green bonds issued outside of Ontario, identifies potential problems with Ontario's green bonds, which could undermine their potential, and recommends a number of steps that the Government of Ontario could take to make its green bond program a success for Ontarians and the environment. 

The GGKP held its second Regional Practitioners' Workshop, 2-3 April 2014, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The workshop, titled "Pathways to Green Growth in Africa," brought together over 120 participants from close to 30 countries with the aim to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst green growth practitioners in Africa. Hosted by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the workshop was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and organized by the World Bank in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). More information, including presentations, photos and video can be found at: http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/event/ggkp-practitioners-workshop-pathways-green-growth-africa