A value chain is the full range of activities it takes to make, market, use, repair, reuse, remanufacture and recycle a product – value is added at every link in the chain. In global value chains, goods are consumed far from the...
Accompanied by around 40 European representatives, notably from the private sector, DGs Manservisi and Calleja led the European Commission team in a successful regional high-level conference on circular economy, green industries...
The Life programme, one of the main EU financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU, exists since 1992 and has co-financed some 4306 projects. For the 2014-2020...
The 4th UN Environment Assembly gathered in Nairobi from 11-15 March 2019. The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It addresses the critical environmental...
“Striving for living wages” was a common denominator at the project lab of sequa at the European Development Days 2018 titled “Empowerment of Women workers in the garment industry in Myanmar”. Since 2013 sequa runs the SMART...
The 2018 European Regional Meeting of the Policy Forum on Development (PFD) saw the SDGs positioned as the guiding principles behind discussions on urban growth, the role of civil society, and ecological impacts. For Sally...
The sixth edition of Green Development News is out. Green Development News (EN ) Green Development News (FR ) 2018, the year of Sustainable Consumption and Production: this issue zooms in on the green economy. Please send us your...
Lower-income countries are in many ways more ‘circular’ than their developed-economy counterparts – the question is how to turn this into a development opportunity. Full publication here.
On the ten-year anniversary of SWITCH-Asia, the 2017 issue of the Magazine reviews the impact generated by the Programme during its first decade. Through milestones and success stories from several countries in Asia, it takes a...
From 14-16 September, young leaders from across Europe, North America, and the Middle East and North Africa will gather in Tallinn for the 10th seminar of the European Young Leaders’ program, led by the think-tank, Friends of...
