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Bretton Woods Project / July 2012 This article looks at civil society voices that criticise the ‘green growth’ and ‘green economy’ agenda being promoted by the World Bank. Read article In the May 2012 report Inclusive Green Growth the World Bank defined green growth as […]
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC) climate change TV at Rio+20 / June 2011 Aly Abou-Sabaa from the African Development Bank explains why he believes it is so important to place an economic value on the environment because there is currently over exploitation of the oceans, […]
Interview with Chee Yoke Ling (Co-director Third World Network) / September 2011 In this interview Chee Yoke Ling explains the different perspectives on the green economy ahead of the Rio+20 meeting. She outlines some of the concerns and fears of developing countries. These include that […]
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 […]
Emily Benson and Oliver Greenfield (Green Economy Coalition) / September 2012 This briefing looks at the work and perspectives of a diverse range of actors on the green economy after the Rio+20 conference held in June 2012. Read article There is on-going debate about what […]
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 […]
Dieter Helm / Policy Network Observatory / October 2012 Dieter Helm (Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford) warns we are headed for a world where carbon emissions reach 500 parts-per-million (ppm) and we fail to tackle climate change. He proposes a rapid take up […]
What is ‘Growth’ for and can we afford it?: A critical twenty-first-century assessment of the hegemonic economic policy of our time Rupert Read / Green House / 2012 At a time of low economic growth in the United Kingdom (and much of the Eurozone) the […]