There are currently multiple existing green growth and green economy indices. This report compares GGGI’s Green Growth Index and UNEP’s Green Economy Progress Index. During GGGI’s two-day international expert workshop in June 2018, which was jointly organized by GGGI and GGKP in Geneva, GGGI and UNEP agreed to collaborate more closely to ensure that these two indices will be developed as complementary tools. With the support of the GGKP Working Group on Metrics and Indicators, the two organizations planned to work on country case studies to apply both indices in 2019.
This report assesses the complementarities between these two indices and discusses their main similarities and differences. It also presents the results from the global applications of both indices, including a detailed discussion of the results for two country case studies in Mexico and China, as well as the results for a common application of both methodologies for a selected number of common indicators and key parameters.