This paper supplements the findings from Achieving Uganda’s Development Ambition: The Economic Impact of Green Growth – An Agenda for Action, to provide a fuller elaboration of the urbanisation elements that will support Uganda’s green growth. Global evidence demonstrates that a national urban transition can support better urban growth through compact urban growth, connected urban infrastructure and coordinated urban governance. 

Shifting our fossil-fuelled civilisation to clean modes of production and consumption requires deep transformations in our energy and economic systems. Innovation in physical technologies and social behaviours is key to this transformation. But innovation has not been at the heart of economic models of climate change. This paper reviews the state of the art on the economics of innovation, applies recent insights to climate change. The core insight is that technological innovation is a path-dependent process in which history and expectations matter greatly in determining eventual outcomes 

This study is one of several in-country studies commissioned to support the research of the Global Commission on Energy and Climate, an international initiative to identify the economic benefits of acting on climate change. Its flagship project is the New Climate Economy, which identifies the opportunities for enhanced economic performance and climate action in urban, land use, and energy systems across a range of country circumstances.