Global Green Growth Institute

The purpose of the Global Program is to consolidate lessons-learned in country programs and to develop solutions to mobilize finance for the restoration and protection of forest landscapes. The Global Program on Sustainable Landscapes aims to utilize GGGI’s existing programs and expertise to develop solutions, models and provide advisory services towards the ‘development of innovative financing mechanisms’ for sustainable landscapes. The approach will document past and on-going programs to develop a toolkit of solutions that can be expanded to meet global forest restoration and protection targets. GGGI’s niche will be conceptualizing, structuring, and mobilizing investment for the restoration and protection of sustainable forest landscapes. The Global Program builds on our strengths and utilizes skills and lessons learnt from existing projects. The Global Program will focus on the development of socially inclusive financial mobilization tools for sustaining and restoring forests. This has been identified as a niche where we are more likely to be competitive with other development partners who have more technical personnel in countries at the ground level.

Approached from a multi-country (India, Sri Lanka and Nepal) perspective in the sub-region, the initiative will look into the tea industry which is a common vital sub-sector in all these 3 GGGI-member countries’ economy and this project can bring transformational impacts to the industry. It aims to strengthen the sustainability (building climate resilience and greening investments) of the tea industry in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal through the conduct of a Sustainability Needs Assessment and development of an investment pipeline to support uptake of green investments and raise awareness of stakeholders in the sub-region’s tea industry.

Domestic green ammonia production is a strategic opportunity for long-term sustainable management of surplus hydropower capacity in Nepal, a domestic product that replaces fertilizer imports into Nepal, and a national priority GHG mitigation technology.

In partnership with GIZ Nepal, GGGI Nepal will develop a financial mechanism (incremental cost subsidy) to support uptake of electric minibuses into public transport systems in Nepal. This will be backed by technical assistance outputs around regulation, institutions, capacity, tax regime, enterprise development for electric minibus fleet deployment nationally. GESI will feature strongly, as well as digitalization.