Green Growth Strategies Expanding Economies While Cutting Emissions
Title: Green Growth Strategies: Expanding Economies While Cutting Emissions. During decades, economic development and environmental conservation were considered as opposite. It was a choice to consume or forgo a job, development or conservation, feeding the people today or saving the planet tomorrow. That framing is collapsing. All over the globe, the economies are finding that growth is not incompatible with reduction of emissions. Green growth or expanding economy and limiting environmental impact is being translated into reality. The associated strategies are transforming sectors, forming novel markets and provoking fresh ideas about the way in which economies operate. The urgency is clear. The emissions being witnessed in the world continue to increase as the costs of inaction keep rising. Severe weather causes havoc to supply chains. The increase in the temperature damages agricultural production. Air pollution puts pressure on health systems. But growth is necessary, particularly...