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6/06/2013: Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Ethiopia 5/06/2013: Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development (pictured) 29/05/2013: Green growth in the benelux: Indicators of local transition to a low-carbon economy in cross-border regions. 23/05/2013: Green Growth in Cities publication (pictured) 21/05/2013: Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport 17/05/2013: Urbanisation and green growth in china 03/05/2013: Cities and Green Growth: The Case of the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area 17/04/2013: Reforms for a Cleaner, Healthier Environment in China 08/04/2013: Cross-Border Trade in Electricity and the Development of Renewables-Based Electric Power 08/04/2013: OECD: Fossil fuel subsidy removal would bring income gains (video) 04/04/2013: Moving Towards a Common Approach on Green Growth Indicators 4-5/04/2013: 2013 Annual Conference: Green Growth Knowledge Platform 27/03/2013:  What have we learned from attempts to introduce green-growth policies? (pictured) 22/03/2013: Speeding up reforms will foster more inclusive and greener growth in China 08/03/2013: OECD Environmental Performance Review: Italy 2013 06/03/2013: The price of oil – will it start rising again? 04/03/2013: OECD Economic Survey: South Africa 2013  (includes chapter on "getting to the right shade of green") 27/02/2013:  A clean energy economy - Lessons from Iceland 27/02/2013: OECD work on Environment: 2013-2014 27/02/2013: Why New Business Models Matter for Green Growth 28/01/2013: Taxing Energy Use 23/11/2012: Green growth and sustainable development forum 2012

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Green Growth and the G20

 

Mexican Presidency - OECD reports delivered to Los Cabos

 

• A Toolkit of Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green Growth

• Incorporating Green Growth and Sustainable Development Policies into Structural Reform Agendas

 

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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) Compact City Policies: A Comparative Assessment (2012) 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) Green Economy Guidebooks (2012) 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) Linking Renewable Energy to Rural Development, (2012) OECD Green Growth Studies (Pictured) Meeting the Water Reform Challenge (2012) Globalisation, Transport and the Environment (2010) OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction (2012) OECD Green Growth Studies: Energy (2011) OECD Green Growth Studies: Food and Agriculture (2011) OECD Green Growth Studies: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth (2011) Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services (2010) Resource Productivity in the G8 and the OECD (2011) Sustainable Materials Management (Pictured) Taxation, Innovation and the Environment (2010) Towards Green Growth (2011) Tools for Delivering on Green Growth (2011) Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress (2011) Transition to a Low-carbon Economy: Public Goals and Corporate Practices (2010)   Further reading

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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

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The Innovation Strategy	International Energy Agency	International Transport Forum

 

 

Partners

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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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