Green Economy Briefing Paper: Indicators

This paper highlights three principal areas for work on green economy indicators and the key challenges to developing a framework for metrics for a green economy. While countries require flexibility to meet their different needs and green economy pathways, the development and coordination of enabling conditions at the international level require some degree of standardization and comparability;

·         Indicators of economic transformation

·         Indicators of resource efficiency

·         Indicators of progress and well-being

Building on the existing indicators, UNEP, in consultation with national and other international agencies and stakeholders, is developing options for measuring progress towards a green and inclusive economy.