Towards Green Growth

The Green Growth Strategy, outlined in this book, provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries’ efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while at the same time ensure that natural assets continue to provide the ecosystem services on which our well being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development.



Table of contents
Executive summary
Chapter 1. The need for green growth strategies
Reframing growth
Green growth dividends
Systemic risks and imbalances
Chapter 2. Policy framework for green growth
Policy design
Market instruments
Regulations and the regulatory environment
Enabling changes in consumer behaviour
Innovation
Investing in infrastructure
Institutions and governance
Chapter 3. Promoting the transition towards green growth
Labour market implications
Distributional impacts
International co-operation for green growth
Chapter 4. Measuring progress towards green growth
Measurement framework
Emerging messages
Remaining measurement issues
Chapter 5. Delivering on green growth
Constructing green growth strategies
Green Growth Strategy: Next steps
Further reading
Annex 1. Harnessing freedom of investment for green growth