Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social (UNRISD)

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) / December 2011

Different organisations present their diverse perspectives on the green economy at the UNRISD conference “Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing back the Social Dimension” (2011) including:

• what the objective of the green economy project is
• what a green economy would look like in practice
• importance of the social dimension (poverty and inequality)
• the kinds of transformations needed to deal with the multiple crises the world faces

Key questions put forward include:

Will the kind of growth promoted under a green economy be within the limits of a finite planet?

Will the green economy have more benefits for the global north or south?

Can we rely on technological innovation to ‘green’ the economy?

Will a green economy transform power relations?

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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.