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What's New   23/05/2012: Colombia signs the Declaration on Green Growth    23/05/2012: Tunisia and Morocco sign the Declaration on Green Growth    22/05/2012: From Indignation and Inequality to Inclusion and Integrity: Opening remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the OECD Forum   22/05/2012: Opening remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the G20 Green Growth Seminar   Featured event: 22-24/05/2012: OECD Forum and OECD Ministerial Council Meeting   21/05/2012: Focus on green growth and water   18/05/2012: OECD and ILO present report on green jobs to G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial.   18/05/2012: Green growth in action: Mexico   16/05/2012: OECD Insights blog: Waste management at the OECD    03/05/2012: Transport Outlook 2012 (ITF)

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Areas of work

Agriculture and fisheries Biotechnology Biodiversity Climate change Cities, regions and communities Consumer behaviour Country-specific reports Development

Economics and growth Energy Energy efficiency Environment Health Indicators  Innovation and technology Investment

Jobs and skills Sustainable development  Taxes Technology transfer Trade  Transport Water

 

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 publications

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) Enhancing Capacity for Greening Development (2012) 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) Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies (2011) Linkages between Agricultural Policies and Environmental Effects: Using the OECD Stylised Agri-environmental Policy Impact Model (2010) Globalisation, Transport and the Environment (2010) OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction  OECD Green Growth Studies: Energy  OECD Green Growth Studies: Food and Agriculture (2011) (pictured) OECD Green Growth Studies: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth (2011) (pictured) Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services (2010) Resource Productivity in the G8 and the OECD (2011) 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)

Further reading

 

Useful links

 

From crisis to recovery Green Growth Knowledge Platform New sources of growth Roundtable on Sustainable Development OECD and the G8 OECD and the G20

 

The Innovation Strategy	International Energy Agency	International Transport Forum

Partners

	UNEP's Green Economy Initiative	UNESCAP Green Growth	Global Green Growth Institute	World Bank

Contact

Nathalie Girouard, Green Growth Co-ordinator (greengrowth@oecd.org)

 

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