Mientras la política de una economía verde coge ímpetu, aún quedan asuntos importantes en relación con el significado y las consecuencias de transición, sobre todo para los más pobres del mundo. A medida que los gobiernos empiezan a identificar oportunidades así como un marco político a nivel nacional, es fundamental que sus procesos de toma de decisiones sean guiados por los objetivos comunes y los principios acordados, para lo que una economía verde debe defender y sostener.
The shift from a brown economy to a green economy is a transformation of epic proportions. The good news is that the transition is already well underway. There are many glimpses of a green economy all over the world. But the big question is how we can scale up the transformation across all of the high-impact sectors?
In the second part of our 'Talking Green Economy' series, we talk to Dr Bhaskar Vira, economist and senior lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge about how we can ensure that poor people benefit from a green economy.
Coalition member, Ethical Markets Media, released their 2012 GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® tracking private sector investments since 2007 in green companies and technologies globally, now totaling more than $3.3 trillion.
In response the Coalition's focus on Measuring What Matters (one of our five themes of change) we were asked to take part in a live discussion at the Natural History Museum, hosted by the BBC environment correspondent, Richard Black, to discuss the role of 'beyond GDP' metrics for catalysing a global transition to a green economy.
Emily Benson, Project Manager for the Coalition, took part in the panel with:
As you are all aware, over the last few years the term ‘green economy’ has crept from the fringes of global conversations into mainstream political discourse. It has been the source of extensive and energetic discussions across inter-governmental, business and civil society arenas. Until now however it has been difficult to assess the extent to which ‘green economy’ is gaining political traction at the global and national level.
A new report by the Aldersgate Group was launched yesterday (28/11) at the the Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium. The report called "Pricing the Priceless" finds introducing new frameworks to incorporate the value of nature into decision making will be vital to safeguard long-term economic growth. In that context, protecting biodiversity is not only a moral obligation of business, but also an important strategy if they want to survive on the long term.
Here at the Green Economy Coalition we believe that the transition to a green economy is not just about vision and ideals. It is about practicalities, it’s about policies, it’s about solutions.
In less than 8 months world leaders and policy-makers will descend on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the world summit on sustainable development (Rio 2012) to discuss Green Economy. The summit offers us a unique opportunity for getting proposals onto the global agenda and thereby kick-starting the transition to a different economic order.
