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The interesting aspects of the green economy, green growth debates that are now happening
The interesting aspects of the green economy, green growth debates that are now happening,
the schools of thought and also experiments that many countries are undertaking,
is that we have many different entry points. Some countries may
arrive, for instance, at green economy policy priorities through their energy needs,
moving towards renewables, small island developing nations trying to become
autonomous from the oil markets of the world.
Another country may look at it through the tourism sector or through the future
of agriculture and the link to water resources.
So our ability to bring together the expertise
So our ability to bring together the expertise
of institution networks, be it
UNEP, the Global Green Growth Institute, the World Bank or the OECD,
is that we are working with different constituencies, different countries and
different issues but all around the same question: How do we
different issues but all around the same question: How do we
progress development, how do we achieve economic progress while also answering to
the environment and social dimensions of development.
It is through this partnership that we have now begun to try to bring an analytically framework
It is through this partnership that we have now begun to try to bring an analytically framework
that can accommodate these different strands of practice and modes of analysis
to start creating a body that is perhaps more comprehensible as a way forward for
the green growth, green economy discussion.
Indicators are a very good litmus test.
If you cannot provide indicators that will tell you
where is the difference between where we are today and where we want to be tomorrow,
then you are not really able to articulate the way forward.
then you are not really able to articulate the way forward.
That is why i think this work that has now brought the World Bank, the OECD
the Global Green Growth Institute and UNEP together,
with its different approaches into one common framework for indicators,
is going to be a very important signal both to the academic and policy community
but also to the practitioners in the field.