Green Economy – Geneva Environment Network

An inclusive green economy is an alternative to today's dominant economic model, which exacerbates inequalities, encourages waste, triggers resource scarcities, and generates widespread threats to the environment and human health. Such an economy is low carbon, efficient and clean in production, but also inclusive in consumption and outcomes, based on sharing, circularity, collaboration, solidarity, resilience, opportunity, and interdependence. The green economy section includes work on green trade, green jobs, just transition, and circular economy.

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20 Aug 2026

Business and Human Rights, Environment, and the Role of Geneva

10 Aug 2026

Deep-Sea Mining Governance and the Role of Geneva

30 Jul 2026

Just Transition and the Role of Geneva

17 Jul 2026

Environmental Sustainability in the Fashion Industry

Organizations

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Better Cotton Initiative

BCI

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Catalytic Finance Foundation

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

IofC

Thematic Platforms

Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs

TESS

Intergovernmental Organizations

Geneva Environment Network

GEN

Academic and Training Institutions

Geneva Platform for Resilient Value Chains

GPRVC

Thematic Platforms

Geneva Trade Platform

GTP

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Global Citizen

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Green Cross International

GCI

Thematic Platforms

Green Growth Knowledge Partnership

GGKP

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

International Emissions Trading Association

IETA

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

International Institute for Sustainable Development

IISD

Intergovernmental Organizations

International Labour Organization

ILO

Intergovernmental Organizations

International Trade Center

ITC

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

My Drop in the Oceans

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Noé21

Intergovernmental Organizations

Partnership for Action on Green Economy

PAGE

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials

RSB

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

Shamba Centre for Food & Climate

Local Authorities

Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

FOEN

Intergovernmental Organizations

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

TEEB

Intergovernmental Organizations

UN University Centre for Policy Research

UNU-CPR

Intergovernmental Organizations

UNEP Europe Office

Intergovernmental Organizations

UNEP Finance Initiative

UNEP FI

Intergovernmental Organizations

UNEP Industry Innovation Branch

Thematic Platforms

United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNECE

Thematic Platforms

United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards

UNFSS

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Institute for Training and Research

UNITAR

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

UNRISD

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Trade and Development

UNCTAD

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Bank Group Geneva Office

World Bank

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WBCSD

Non-Governmental and Business Organizations

World Economic Forum

WEF

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO

Intergovernmental Organizations

World Trade Organization

WTO

Experts

Aik Hoe Lim

Aik Hoe Lim is the Director of Trade and Environment Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Alexander Kasterine

Alexander Kasterine is Senior Advisor at the International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO).

Alice Tipping

Alice Tipping is the Director of Trade and Sustainable Development at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck is a Senior Researcher at the Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre and Director of the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS).

Christophe Bellmann

Christophe Bellmann is the Head of Policy Analysis and Strategy at the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS).

Daouia Chalali

Daouia Chalali leads a project on long-term governance at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR).

Dario Liguti

Dario Liguti is the Director of the Energy, Housing & Land Management Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

David Vivas Eugui

David Vivas Eugui is the Chief of the Ocean and Circular Economy Unit in the Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Delphine Garin

Delphine Garin is the manager of Plastics & Packaging at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Elisa Tonda

Elisa Tonda is the Chief of the Resources and Markets Branch at the UN Environment Programme, effective 1 September 2022.

Eric Usher

Eric Usher is the Head of the United Nations Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

Eva Zabey

Eva Zabey is the Executive Director of Business for Nature.

Evelina Trutnevyte

Evelina Trutnevyte is an associate professor and head of the Renewable Energy Systems group at the University of Geneva and IPCC AR7 Working Group III coordinating lead author of Chapter 3 "Projected futures in the context of sustainable development and climate change".