Green growth. Green growth strategies: a framework for the future, and the present. Today is the second day of the OECD Green Growth Strategy Workshop. We asked Nathalie Girouard, the Green Growth Strategy Co-ordinator, for her views on some of the topics being discussed. What is a green growth strategy and why do we need one? Nathalie Girouard: The aim of a green growth strategy is to provide a clear framework for how countries can achieve economic growth and development while at the same time preventing costly environmental degradation, climate change and inefficient use of natural resources. We need green growth because risks to development are rising as growth continues to erode natural capital. This is occurring more rapidly in the developing world, but much of the demand driving it is in the developed world.
But we can’t just start from scratch. We have to be aware of possible path dependency in green growth strategies too. How do you put a value on natural capital? How will we know that growth is green? The data have given us at least three indications already. Schumpeter: Green growth. Green Growth Leaders | The official website for Green Growth Leaders.
Work on green growth. Events | News | Towards Green Growth Reports | Further Reading | Key documents Hot topics Green Growth and the G20 Mexican Presidency - OECD reports delivered to Los Cabos A Toolkit of Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green GrowthIncorporating Green Growth and Sustainable Development Policies into Structural Reform Agendas Areas of work Why green growth? The crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed. By analysing economic and environmental policies together, by looking at ways to spur eco-innovation and by addressing other key issues related to a transition to a greener economy such as jobs and skills, investment, taxation, trade and development, the OECD can show the way to make a cleaner low-carbon economy compatible with growth.
Towards Green Growth provides recommendations to help governments to identify the policies that can help achieve the most efficient shift to greener growth, focusing, for example, on: Key publications Useful links Partners. Work on green growth. Events | News | Towards Green Growth Reports | Further Reading | Key documents Hot topics Green Growth and the G20 Mexican Presidency - OECD reports delivered to Los Cabos A Toolkit of Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green GrowthIncorporating Green Growth and Sustainable Development Policies into Structural Reform Agendas Areas of work Why green growth? The crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed. By analysing economic and environmental policies together, by looking at ways to spur eco-innovation and by addressing other key issues related to a transition to a greener economy such as jobs and skills, investment, taxation, trade and development, the OECD can show the way to make a cleaner low-carbon economy compatible with growth.
Towards Green Growth provides recommendations to help governments to identify the policies that can help achieve the most efficient shift to greener growth, focusing, for example, on: Key publications Useful links Partners. Green Growth, sustainable economic growth, climate change, environment.