{"id":19989,"date":"2011-02-22T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naider.com\/naiderlab\/resumiendo-la-economia-verde-segun-unep\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:40:45","slug":"summing-up-the-green-economy-according-to-unep","status":"publish","type":"naiderlab","link":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/naiderlab\/knowledge\/articles\/summing-up-the-green-economy-according-to-unep\/","title":{"rendered":"Summing up the green economy according to UNEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gerbanner.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6018\" alt=\"gerbanner\" src= \"https:\/\/naider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gerbanner.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>In the last quarter century the world economy has quadrupled, benefiting millions of people. However, in the same period of time, 60% of the world&#8217;s main ecosystem goods and services, on which human survival depends, have been degraded or used in an unsustainable way.<\/p>\n<p>One of the latest publications from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UNEP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www. unep.org\/greeneconomy\/Portals\/88\/documents\/ger\/GER_synthesis_sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Towards a green economy. Guide for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty<\/em><\/a>, revolves around this problem, offering<strong>\u00a0arguments that promote the transition<\/strong>towards an economy that manages to decouple the creation of wealth of environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img407.imageshack.us\/img407\/2721\/ecologicalfootprint.png\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/greeneconomy\/Portals\/88\/documents\/ger\/GER_synthesis_sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>The Ecological Wealth of Nations: Earth&#8217;s Biocapacity as a New Framework for International Cooperation. Global Footprint Network (2010), p. 13; Human Development Index data from Human Development Report 2009 &#8211; Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development. UNDP (2009).<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNEP defines a green economy as one that <strong><em>improves human well-being and enables greater social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcity<\/em><\/strong>. In addition, the green economy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize the value of natural capital by investing in it.<\/li>\n<li>It is essential for poverty reduction.<\/li>\n<li>Creates jobs by promoting social equity.<\/li>\n<li>Substitute fossil fuels for renewable energy and low carbon technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitates a more sustainable urban life and reduces carbon emissions from transport.<\/li>\n<li>Allows the conservation and recovery of natural capital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After analyzing the <strong>\u00a0benefits of the green economy <\/strong>, the document sets out a series of <strong>measures and political guidelines <\/strong> to accelerate the transition towards the new economic paradigm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishment of sound regulatory frameworks.<\/li>\n<li>Prioritization of investment and public spending towards environmental improvement activities.<\/li>\n<li>Limiting public spending in areas that are detrimental to natural capital.<\/li>\n<li>Application of taxes and market-based instruments to promote environmental investments and innovations.<\/li>\n<li>Investment in training and education.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening of international governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In relation to these measures developed in the UNEP report, the article by Martin J\u00e4nicke from <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.euskadi.net\/ekonomiaz\/taula1_c.apl?IDPUBL=71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">number 75 of Ekonomiaz<\/a>, which we already talked about in the <a href=\"https:\/\/naider.com\/articulos-opinion\/iv%C3%A1n-de-torres\/sostenibilidad-e- innovation-we-continue-d%C3%A1ndole-turns-to-the-concept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>, establishes <strong>four general considerations for policy design of eco-innovation,<\/strong> which will drive the transition towards a green economy. Thus, Martin J\u00e4nicke exhibits at<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.euskadi.net\/ekonomiaz\/taula4_c.apl?REG=1085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Innovations for sustainable use of the resources: reflections and proposals<\/a><\/em> that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting ambitious, broadly ambitious and reliable goals are a necessary condition.<\/li>\n<li>A flexible policy mix is \u200b\u200brequired to support the innovation cycle from invention to diffusion.<\/li>\n<li>A preponderant role within this mix should be given to the price system (taxes, tariffs, certificates, market incentives) and regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the clusters and competent integrating networks are indicated as important actors in the eco-innovative process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Other related articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naider.com\/blog\/iv%C3%A1n-de-torres\/broadening-the-focus-of-innovation%C3%B3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadening the focus of innovation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naider.com\/blog\/iv%C3%A1n-de-torres\/sustainability-and-innovation%C3%B3n-seguimos-d%C3%A1ndole-turns-to-the-concept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainability and innovation: we keep thinking about the concept.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naider.com\/blog\/iv%C3%A1n-de-torres\/eco-products-and-services-necessarily-m%C3%A1s-expensive\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green products and services: necessarily more expensive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cover image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/greeneconomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Green Initiative, UNEP<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last quarter century the world economy has quadrupled, benefiting millions of people. However, in the same period of time, 60% of the world&#8217;s main ecosystem goods and services, on which human survival depends, have been degraded or used in an unsustainable way. One of the latest publications from UNEP, Towards a green economy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9298,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"hashtag-lab":[],"naiderlab_tag":[150],"naiderlab_category":[51],"ppma_author":[198],"class_list":["post-19989","naiderlab","type-naiderlab","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","naiderlab_tag-economic-analysis-and-competitiveness","naiderlab_category-articles"],"taxonomy_info":{"naiderlab_tag":[{"value":150,"label":"Economic analysis and competitiveness"}],"naiderlab_category":[{"value":51,"label":"Articles"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/naider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gerbanner.jpg",250,126,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Naider","author_link":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/author\/sirope-naid3r\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naiderlab\/19989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naiderlab"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/naiderlab"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"hashtag-lab","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag-lab?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"naiderlab_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naiderlab_tag?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"naiderlab_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naiderlab_category?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}