Governance and measurement
Improving governance and measurement – measuring what matters: Green economic governance will redefine progress in light of environmental and societal needs; and make governments, businesses and people more accountable for their actions.
A national vision for a green economy emerges from Botswana
Botswana recently organised one of Africa’s first multi-stakeholder dialogues to explore the Green Economy (GE) concept and to map out what transitioning to a GE would entail for the country.
The basic principles of Sustainable Development (SD) have been part of... Continue reading
What does it take to measure what matters?
On Monday, Moody’s credit rating agency announced that the British economy has a ‘negative outlook’. These two small words have sent shivers through the Treasury and the city. Downgrading the creditworthiness of a national economy can have such catastrophic impacts on... Continue reading
Report or Explain...
How can markets, governments, companies and consumers together make the needed transition to a sustainable Green Economy? This is one of the key questions to be discussed during the last phase of the preparatory process of the Rio+20 conference. The negotiations need to aim at a bold and... Continue reading
How can stock exchanges drive the sustainability agenda?
2012 ought to be a big year for sustainable investment. Calls for a more responsible approach to capitalism are growing, along with the sense that a more sophisticated understanding of investment risk – one which takes longer-term sustainability issues into account – is... Continue reading
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B: Good effort, but really MUST try harder
Twenty years on from the first summit on sustainable development, this week the UNCSD Bureau released their first negotiating draft for Rio 2012. They have called the draft ‘the future we... Continue reading
A case for Ombudspersons for Future Generations
There are many Rio dinosaurs roaming the planet at the moment. By that, I mean actors across the political scene – from civil society, to civil servants, to academics and practitioners – who actively took part in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit over twenty years ago. Their institutional... Continue reading
China – a learner & a leader in green leapfrogging?
During the last couple of years, China has taken a huge, globally-recognized step to make its economy more sustainable. The green agenda was added to government programmes, incorporated in business strategies and integrated into teaching schemes. How did this process come to life?
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Governing a green economy
Over the last few years the concept of a green economy has crept from the fringes of political discourse and into the mainstream. Whilst the term may feel like a new concept, it is a vision that is founded on forty years of thinking on sustainable development. That vision is for an economy... Continue reading
How the UK government can turn its green vision into reality
You would be forgiven for missing the launch last week of the government's vision for "Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy". In the midst of the turmoil on global stock markets, it was published not with a bang but a whimper. There was no press release or media briefing,... Continue reading
Quality of life indexes gaining ground
GDP tracks national output using money flows, which its inventor Simon Kuznets warned was never intended to measure overall progress. GDP reporting in mass media became a "fetish". GDP focuses economic competition between nations, justifying interest rates on their sovereign bonds.... Continue reading
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