“Why a Green Economy Matters for Least Developed Countries”

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and UN Office of The High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) has produced a joint publication entitled “Why the Green Economy Matters for Least Developed Countries”

The publication was produced for the Least Developed Countries Fourth Conference in May 2011 and “examines the idea that Least Developed Countries (LDCs) possess the economic conditions, the natural and cultural assets, and the policy setting to embrace, if not lead, a green economy transition, which would in turn accelerate their development.

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