Anthony Giddens: The Four Mistakes of Green Growth (Triple Pundit)

Phil Covington / Triple Pundit / March 2011

Academic Anthony Giddens (former head of the London School of Economics) argues 4 main mistakes are made when approaching the concept of green growth:

A low carbon economy will not be our current economic model with more renewable energy sources. The future economy needs to be structurally different.

We should not rely on technology for the changes needed to tackle climate change. Social, political and economic are more important drivers of change.

Using renewable energy will not be enough to reduce overall global emissions. There needs to be reduction in reducing overall consumption and demand as well. We need to reduce emissions everywhere, it will not be enough to outsource industrial production.

We should not focus on how many green jobs will be created from green industries but instead on how many net new jobs there will be.

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This summary was prepared by Why Green Economy?. The views expressed have been paraphrased. See the original source for more information.