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Green Economy

Rio+20 Panel Calls for Creating Sustainable Development and Low-Carbon Prosperity For Sustainable Planet

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Rio+20 Report Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing

The upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development for low-carbon prosperity and a sustainable planet sent out a blueprint with 56 recommendations yesterday in the Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing report just released.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for action on a new blueprint for creating a sustainable planet, a just society and a growing economy, stressing that the current path will not lead to a fair and resilient future for the world’s people. He stated: “We need to chart a new, more sustainable course for the future, one that strengthens equality and economic growth while protecting our planet. Sustainable development offers our best chance to change course.”

Speaking at the launch in Addis Ababa of the report prepared by his High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, Mr. Ban stressed that sustainable development is a top priority for his second term of office prior to the upcoming Rio+20 conference. Continue Reading Rio+20 Panel Calls for Creating Sustainable Development and Low-Carbon Prosperity For Sustainable Planet Here

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Posted by admin - January 31, 2012 at 9:02 am

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Green Economy What is a Green Economy

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Model for a Green Economy based on the three pillars of sustainability

What is a Green Economy you ask? A green economy is an economy that results in overall improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing the environmental dangers and ecological scarcities. Currently, our economy is primarily an oil-based, or oil-driven economy, since it plays a major role in most everything we use and do, from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals, to electricity and transportation. This term is a model for an economy or economic development model based on sustainable development and an understanding of ecological economics.

In its basic format, its most identifying feature from prior economic models is the direct valuation of the natural capital and ecological services as having economics value and utilizes a full cost accounting regime in which costs externalized onto society via ecosystems are reliably traced back to, and accounted for as the liabilities of that entity, and takes into consideration the harm that the entity does or neglects an asset. For instance, the coal industry has many behind the scenes costs, such as pollution, health problems, CO2 emissions, and others that can be directly linked to the cost of coal in this type of economy, whereas all those negative impacts of coal are over looked in our current fossil fuel, or oil based economy. Continue Reading Green Economy What is a Green Economy Here

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Posted by admin - September 7, 2011 at 2:09 pm

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