Green Economy > Home. About Calendar Multimedia News Publications 中文 Español Français United Nations Environment Programme environment for development Climate Change Disasters & Conflicts Ecosystem Management Environmental Governance Harmful Substances Resource Efficiency What is Green Economy? Discover more ... Green Economy in action View latest briefing papers Read reports Mexico Building a green economy means investing in people Serbia Education and innovation are key to a green economy Morocco Generating clean energy is a priority for the country Jordan Study finds investing in conservation can create jobs Philippines Achieving a resource-efficient economy is the goal With a GDP of approximately USD 1 trillion, Mexico is ranked as the 13th largest economy in 2010. Photo © Oxfam International Serbia’s economy has been growing continuously, except for 2009 when the financial crisis hit the country.
Photo © World Bank. Memo to Rio+20: 'green economy' doesn't mean monetising nature. A lone green tree amid deforested land near Mae Chaem, Thailand.
Would ascribing a monetary value to the area have made a difference? Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA The 1992 Rio Earth summit established "sustainable development" firmly in the global political lexicon – even though the term meant, and continues to mean, different things to different people. For Stephan Schmidheiny, a CEO who was appointed chief adviser for business and industry at the summit and subsequently set up the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, it apparently means continuing with business as usual: in February, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the deaths of thousands of workers at his asbestos-cement factory.
‘Green Economy’ - New Disguise for Old Tricks? FLORENCE, May 28, 2012 (IPS) - Though the current global economic and financial crises are undoubtedly devastating much of the world, they present the perfect opportunity for remodeling our economic system, according to participants at the ninth annual Terra Futura (Future Earth) exhibition of ‘good practices’ in social, economic and environmental sustainability held here from May 25-27. "What, how, how much and for whom to produce?
Those are the questions we urgently need to answer," said Guido Viale, environmental economist and author of several books on ecological issues. "The crisis offers us a chance to ecologically reconvert the ways we produce and use goods and services, paving the way to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, to respect biodiversity and to create a safe, low-carbon economic system. " Green economy or greedy economy?
What is a green economy?
A true green economy would embrace economic justice - the right of poor communities to determine their own path out of poverty, and an end to harmful policies which put profit before people and the environment. It would end our obsession with economic growth and unsustainable consumption and replace these with a focus on how everyone’s needs can be met in a truly sustainable manner. However, industrialised countries like the UK, alongside banks and multinational companies, are using the phrase 'green economy' as a smokescreen to hide their plan to further privatise the global commons and create new markets in the functions nature provides for free.
Out of this Trojan horse will spring new market-based mechanisms that will allow the financial sector to gain more control of the management of the global commons. Subject the natural world to cost-benefit analysis and accountants and statisticians will decide which parts of it we can do without. Will Rio+20 Spark a Green Revolution? UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 25, 2012 (IPS) - Think of Rio+20 as the hothouse to grow the green ideas and values humanity needs to thrive in the 21st century. No one is expecting, or even wants, a big new international treaty on sustainable development said Manish Bapna, interim president of the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C. "The important action will be on the sidelines of the formal negotiations," Bapna told IPS in an interview. Blocs of countries, civil society organisations and representatives of business will meet, create coalitions and make commitments on specific issues and on regional concerns.
"There could be some exciting specific commitments coming out of Rio," Bapna said. Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority. 3. Green Economy Conference - Green Economy Group. Creating a Green Economy:Pioneering Next Generation Green Companies,Green Projects and Green Jobs The cleantech conference will be held in San Franciscoon October 21st and October 22nd, 2014The Green Economy Awards will also be presentedduring the conference Green Economy Conference 2014 The Green Economy Conference 2014 will be held in San Francisco on October 21st and October 22nd, 2014.
Conference registration will open on February 1st, 2014. The Hunt For Green In The Green Economy. On a trade delegation to Israel in March, Gov.
Deval Patrick was joined by Astrid Khokhar, director of sales and marketing at a subsidiary of Devens-based American Superconductor Corp. Khokhar took the opportunity to tout the company's status as "one of the world's leading power technology companies. " Since then, American Superconductor has announced that the Chinese company that is by far its biggest customer won't pay for previously ordered shipments of wind turbine parts, has laid off 10 percent of its staff and has been hit by lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders.
Its stock price has fallen from more than $20 to $9 per share. The clean-technology industry as a whole hasn't seen that kind of a sudden fall, but its stocks aren't booming the way they were a few years back, either. And then there's former clean-tech poster child Evergreen Solar of Marlborough, which has acknowledged that it may be close to failure because of major challenges to its business model. Long-term Wager.