As Korean consumers are becoming aware of the seriousness of environmental degradation, a growing number of Korean consumers are beginning to consider eco-friendliness as an important factor in purchasing products, alongside prices, quality and designs. The government of Korea thus introduced an Environmental labelling for consumers to identify and select eco-friendly...

This A National Green Growth Plan for Jordan (NGGP) applies green growth to Jordan as a practical approach that builds upon existing government strategies, primarily Vision 2025, and demonstrates pathways to achieving them in a sustainable way. This is reflected by a focus on shifting existing interventions towards implementation, defining not “what should be done” but rather...

This paper, Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin: Emissions Trading Scheme, introduced the operation of the Korean Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Korea's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to increase over the decades. It is expected that the ETS will reduce the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions effectively in terms...

The Green Economy Inventory for South Africa (GEISA) was commissioned by the South African government to assist with tracking, monitoring and evaluating existing green economy initiatives and programmes in order to foster sector-wide coordination and coherence, and to help identify gaps and areas requiring further support. The GEISA is a...

In Korea's Green Growth: Based on OECD green growth indicators, Statistics Korea selected 23 green growth indicators applicable to Korea among the OECD-proposed green growth indicators and with those selected indicators, it analysed the level of implementation of Korea's green growth since 2000.

The 23 indicators are grouped into following...

In Green Growth in the Netherlands, Statistics Netherlands gives an overview of green growth in the Netherlands. It presents the available data for twenty of the thirty indicators proposed by the OECD, and may serve as a benchmark, as well as a starting point for further discussion.

The main...

Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy: Government and business working together proposes means by which the Government and business in the UK can work together to catalyse the transition to the green economy. It explains the potential benefits that the green economy will bring to the UK including: mitigating risks from increasing and...

The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan: National strategy for climate and energy sets out the UK’s transition plan for building a low carbon UK as part of the Government’s five point plan to tackle climate change: cutting emissions, maintaining secure energy supplies, maximising economic opportunities and protecting the most vulnerable...