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Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication

Release Date: January, 2012
ISBN 13: 9789280731439
Sales Number: 12.III.D.1
632 page(s), 8.25x11.5
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: United Nations Environment Program


This main output of the Green Economy Initiative demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator of decent jobs, and that it is also a vital strategy for the elimination of persistent poverty. The Report also seeks to motivate policymakers to create the enabling conditions for increased investments in a transition to a green economy in three ways -- by illustrating how added employment through green jobs offsets job losses in a transition to a green economy, by using sustainable forestry and ecologically friendly farming methods to show how a green economy can reduce persistent poverty across a range of important sectors, and by providing concrete suggestions as a guide to achieving this transition.

Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication Release Date: January, 2012 ISBN 13: 9789280731439 Sales Number: 12.III.D.1 632 page(s), 8.25x11.5 Binding: Paperback Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme