Green Economy:
CLASS OF 2003
Winterboro High SchoolClass of 2003
Alpine, AL
Green's Story
The notion "green economy"
"Green" economy - result of human well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities (limited) (determination of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
"Green economy" - economic development model based on sustainable development and knowledge economy Environment (definition of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).
"Green" economy is concerned not only about the growth of capital and labor and the resumption of information, but also renews the land (natural resources) as a factor of production. For economy this is necessary:
1) to create the conditions and implement actions to withhold the possibilities for earth self-regeneration: the ecosystem resilience of nature systems that support our existence;
2) to improve resource efficiency, thereby reducing the impact of the environment on individual sectors of the economy and human activity.
The concept of "green economy":
1) state support and private investments are directed to the dissemination of knowledge, the implementation of the initiatives, the creation of technologies and industries that can help reduce carbon emissions and pollution levels;
2) based on "green" technologies, involving the deeper processing of waste, reduction of power consumption or the use of alternative energy new, "green" economy sectors emerge, and "green" jobs also. Deeper use of raw materials lead to lower cost of manufacture of "green" products and increase profits for the "green" production compared to conventional, cause the possibility of establishing higher wages. As a result, there are social incentives to flow of labor resources in the "green" sector of the economy, and reducing poverty;
3) Improving energy efficiency reduces the need to burn fuel and reduce carbon emissions. This is an important condition for the self-regeneration of natural resources;
4) improvement resource efficiency leads to a reduction of waste, reduction of environmental pollution, sustainable existence of a sector of the economy for a long period, creates the conditions for maintaining biodiversity, maintaining organic household enhancing access to local natural resources and reduce poverty, the development of ecosystem services for the residents of the countries who have lost them.
Thus, the concept of "green economy" is developed in the development of the concept of sustainable development, emphasizing the importance of improving the stability of the global economy.
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"green economy"
The "Guidelines for the" green "economy", published in September 2012, provided an overview of the six principles of "green" economy. Six principles of "green" fair and inclusive economy are as follows:
1) The validity and objectivity, both within one generation and between generations;
2) Consistency with the principles of sustainable development;
3) preventive approach to social influences and impacts on the environment;
4) Evaluation of natural and social capital, such as the internationalization of external costs, green accounting, costs throughout the lifetime and improve governance;
5) Sustainable and efficient use of resources, consumption and production;
6) The need to implement the existing macroeconomic objectives through the creation of "green" jobs, the eradication of poverty, improvement of competitiveness and growth in key sectors.
Green growth
Because now the development of new indicators for sustainable development is being carried out, which would complement GDP, during the transition period to keep track of how the economy of a region goes to the "green" economy, the concept of "green" growth is used.
"Green growth" - is the growth of GDP, which corresponds to the principles of "green economy" and focuses on "green" sectors as new drivers of development.
The emphasis on "green" sectors suggests a change in the structure of the economy, which is:
⢠pay more attention to the social dimension of sustainable development (social cohesion objective of several generations, providing access to a variety of resources, the fight against poverty and unemployment);
⢠based not only on the manufacturing sector, but increasingly based on mining and service sectors;
⢠environmentally friendly due to the predominant investment, production, trade, distribution and consumption, as well as the improvement of goods and services from an environmental point of view;
⢠leads to the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner, not dependent on fossil fuels;
⢠creates new economic opportunities, expanding the scope of economic development and reducing poverty;
⢠it is the "ecological production system" in agriculture, industry, research and development, in the administration and the service sector, which includes works that will help protect ecosystems and biodiversity; reduce energy consumption, and water resources due to the highly effective strategies; reduce carbon emissions; minimizing or preventing the formation of a whole all forms of waste and pollution. "
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