Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Towards Green Growth Reports
Launch of the Green Growth Strategy
The four reports below were published on 25 May during a public session of the 2011 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting.
- Towards Green Growth provides a practical framework for governments in developed and developing countries to boost economic growth and protect the environment.
- Tools for Delivering on Green Growth outlines some of the options available to policy makers for developing green growth strategies.
- Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress - OECD Indicators outlines a framework and monitoring tools that can help governments measure progress towards green growth.
- Towards Green Growth: A summary for policy makers gives an overview of the key messages.
Note: also available in German | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish
These reports respond to a request from Ministers of the 34 countries who signed a Green Growth Declaration in 2009, committing to strengthen their efforts to pursue green growth strategies as part of their responses to the crisis.
| "Ministers welcomed the Green Growth Strategy and provided guidance on future work. They agreed that green growth tools and indicators can help expand economic growth and job creation through sustainable use of natural resources, efficiencies in the use of energy, and valuation of ecosystem services. Ministers noted that innovation, supported by a strong intellectual property rights system, is a key to countries’ abilities to achieve economic growth, create green jobs, and protect the environment." OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2011, Chair's Summary |
Green growth was a key theme of OECD Week.
Why green growth?
The crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed. In response, many governments are putting in place measures aimed at a green recovery. Together with innovation, going green can be a long-term driver for economic growth, through, for example, investing in renewable energy and improved efficiency in the use of energy and materials.
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:
- green jobs and social aspects
- green taxes and regulatory approaches
- industrial restructuring and renewal
- fiscal consolidation
- green technologies
- peer reviews
- co-operation between OECD countries and emerging economies
- involvement of stakeholders
| "We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume." OECD Week 2011: Better Policies for Better Lives - A message from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. |
| "The rewards of greening the world's economies are tangible and considerable, the means are at hand for both governments and the private sector, and the time to engage the challenge is now."' UNEP, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication |
Key OECD documents on green growth
- The Green Growth Strategy: Reshaping the OECD’s work agenda for the years to come (flyer outlining the next steps for green growth) (2011)
- Towards Green Growth: A summary for policy makers (brochure) (2011) (German | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish)
- The Green Growth Strategy: How can we get to a greener economy? (Brochure) (2010) (in Chinese) (in Spanish)
- Interim Report of the Green Growth Strategy: Implementing our Commitment for a Sustainable Future (2010)
- OECD and green growth (flyer) (2009)
- Declaration on Green Growth adopted at the Meeting of the Council (MCM) at Ministerial Level on 25 June 2009 [C/MIN(2009)5/ADD1/FINAL]
- Green Growth: Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond (2009)
- From Grim to Green - OECD Messages on Green Growth (2009)
Key publications
- A Green Growth Strategy for Food and Agriculture (2011) (pictured)
- Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation (2011)
- Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation (2011)
- Cities and Climate Change (2010)
- Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth (2010)
- Environmental Claims: Findings and Conclusions of the Committee of the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy (2011)
- Greener and Smarter: ICTs, the environment and climate change (2010)
- Greening Household Behaviour (2011)
- Linkages between Agricultural Policies and Environmental Effects: Using the OECD Stylised Agri-environmental Policy Impact Model (2010)
- Globalisation, Transport and the Environment (2010)
- Resource Productivity in the G8 and the OECD (2011)
- Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services (2010)
- Taxation, Innovation and the Environment (2010)
- Towards Green Growth (2011)
- Tools for Delivering on Green Growth (2011)
- Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress - OECD Indicators (2011)
- Transition to a Low-carbon Economy: Public Goals and Corporate Practices (2010)
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Foundation For the Future
http://www.futurefoundation.org/
Alerted by an email that the "Foundation For the Future has selected Dr. Charles A. Murray as the 2011 winner of the Kistler Prize. Dr. Murray, noted political scientist and author, is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and is best known for his book The Bell Curve (1994), ..." and seeing that the "Previous recipients of the Kistler Prize have included: Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., 2010; Svante Paabo, Ph.D., 2009; J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., 2008; Spencer Wells, Ph.D., 2007; Doreen Kimura, Ph.D., FRSC, 2006; Thomas J. Bouchard Jr., Ph.D., 2005; Vincent M. Sarich, Ph.D., 2004; Arthur R. Jensen, Ph.D., 2003; Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., 2002; Richard Dawkins, Ph.D., FRS, 2001; and Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., 2000" I think we are beginning to see an agenda here.
As they say, "Foundation For the Future launches its fifteenth year of operation with exciting plans for an extension of emphasis on the study of the relationship between the human genome and society." The empahsis seems to be on one direction of influence, and on particular attributes/constructs such as IQ.
http://www.futurefoundation.org/
Alerted by an email that the "Foundation For the Future has selected Dr. Charles A. Murray as the 2011 winner of the Kistler Prize. Dr. Murray, noted political scientist and author, is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and is best known for his book The Bell Curve (1994), ..." and seeing that the "Previous recipients of the Kistler Prize have included: Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., 2010; Svante Paabo, Ph.D., 2009; J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., 2008; Spencer Wells, Ph.D., 2007; Doreen Kimura, Ph.D., FRSC, 2006; Thomas J. Bouchard Jr., Ph.D., 2005; Vincent M. Sarich, Ph.D., 2004; Arthur R. Jensen, Ph.D., 2003; Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., 2002; Richard Dawkins, Ph.D., FRS, 2001; and Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., 2000" I think we are beginning to see an agenda here.
As they say, "Foundation For the Future launches its fifteenth year of operation with exciting plans for an extension of emphasis on the study of the relationship between the human genome and society." The empahsis seems to be on one direction of influence, and on particular attributes/constructs such as IQ.
