Recipe for creating green jobs
Now is the time to accelerate the global transformation to a truly resource-efficient economy. If G20 leaders are serious about generating green growth and the jobs that go with it—as well as ensuring their countries’ energy security and conserving the environment—they need to adopt, with urgency, a broad set of new policies and measures. Simply stated, policymakers must strike a new balance between incentives and disincentives for investment that indisputably favors green growth.
To learn more about green growth, explore the selected reports and resources on the right menu.
- OECD work on green growth
- Towards a Green Economy by the United Nations Environment Programme (2011)
- A New Growth Path for Europe – Generating Prosperity and Jobs in the Low-Carbon Economy commissioned by the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2011)
- Sizing the Clean Economy by the Brookings Institution (2011)
- State of the Green Economy by the Green Growth Leaders and Take Lead conference (first published in November 2011)
