Yudu - Green Economy - Enabling Conditions

Towards a green economy Acknowledgements

Chapter Coordinating Author: Peter Wooders, Senior Economist for Climate Change, Energy and Trade, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Benjamin Simmons and Anna Autio of UNEP managed the chapter, including the handling of peer reviews, interacting with the coordinating author on revisions, conducting supplementary research and bringing the chapter to final production.

The following individuals at IISD contributed to this chapter under the oversight of Mark Halle, Director - Trade and Investment, and European Representative at IISD, and the Chapter Coordinating Author: Christopher Beaton, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Aaron Cosbey, Heather Creech, Tara Laan, Kerryn Lang, Don MacClean, Oshani Perera and David Sawyer. Contributions were also received from Yasser Sherif (Environics Consulting Firm).

During the development of the chapter, the Chapter Coordinating Author received invaluable advice from the following experts in their personal capacity: Dr. Edward B. Barbier (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wyoming); Dr. Alex Bowen (Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics); Dr. Simon Buckle (Policy Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College); Paul Ekins (Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, University College London); Oliver Greenfield (Head of Sustainable Business and Economics, WWF-UK); Dr. Sylviane Guillaumont (Professor, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International); Hazel Henderson (President, Ethical Markets Media LLC); Chris Hewett (Associate, Green Alliance); Dr. Raghbendra Jha (Professor and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre, Australian National University); Peter May

(President-elect, the International Society for Ecological Economics); Daniel von Moltke (Wegelin

Responsible Investment, Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers); László Pintér (IISD Senior Fellow and Associate); Nick Robins (Head, Climate Change Centre of Excellence, HSBC); Dr. Kenneth Ruffing (formerly Deputy Director and Chief Economist, OECD Environment Directorate); Dr. Dorothea Seebode (Senior Director of Sustainability, Philips Research); Vicky Sharpe (President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada); Professor Mike Young (Director of the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide); Dr. Soogil Young (President, Korea National Strategy Institute); and Dr. Simon Zadek (Chief Executive, AccountAbility).

We would like to thank the many colleagues and individuals who commented on various drafts, including Laura Altinger (UNECE), Charles Arden-Clarke (UNEP), Jamie Attard (UNEP), Mario Berrios (ILO), Christian Blondin (WMO), Nils Axel Braathen (OECD), Graeme Buckley (ILO), Karin Buhren (UN Habitat), Munyaradzi Chenje (UNEP), Ezra Clark (UNEP), Garrette Clark (UNEP), David O’Connor (UN DESA), Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD), James Curlin (UNEP), Sabrina De Gobbi (ILO), Thierry De Oliveira (UNEP), Mercedes Durán (ILO), Jane Gibbs (UNEP), Carlos Andrés Enmanuel Ortiz (UNEP), Nathalie Girouard (OECD), Etienne Gonin (UNEP), Elliot Harris (IMF), Ulrich Hoffmann (UNCTAD), Christine Hofmann (ILO), Gulelat Kebede (UN Habitat), Elianna Konialis (OECD), Ralf Krüger (UNCTAD), Vesile Kulaçoğlu (WTO), Vivien Liu (WTO), Cornis van der Lugt (UNEP), Angela Lusigi (UNEP), Nara Luvsan (UNEP), Synnøve Lyssand Sandberg (UNEP), Robert McGowan, Helen Mountford (OECD), Hans d’Orville (UNESCO), Martina Otto (UNEP), Romain Perez (UN DESA), Peter Poschen (ILO), Alexandria Rantino (UNEP), Anabella Rosemberg (International Trade Union Confederation), Nadia Scialabba (FAO), Rajendra Shende (UNEP), Anne Marie Sloth Carlsen (UNDP), Luc Soete (UN-MERIT), Olga Strietska-Ilina (ILO), Elisa Tonda (UNEP), Carlien van Empel (ILO), Jaap van Woerden (UNEP), Geneviève Verbrugge (UNEP), Farid Yaker (UNEP) and Wanhua Yang (UNEP).

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