The OECD Green Growth Strategy supports countries in fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. Policies that promote green growth need to be founded on a good understanding of the determinants of green growth and need to be supported with appropriate indicators to monitor progress and gauge results.
This report updates the 2011 Towards Green Growth: Monitoring progress. It presents the OECD framework for monitoring progress towards green growth and a selection of updated indicators that illustrate the progress that OECD countries have made since the 1990s.
Part One of the report summarises the conceptual framework and the original set of green growth indicators. It describes recent developments, including the agreement on a small set of headline indicators and advances in the measurement agenda. It also presents national and international initiatives related to green growth indicators and the underlying statistics. This includes the System of Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) whose central framework was adopted as a statisticalstandard at the level of the United Nations, and whose implementation will provide an important basis for improving the quality of green growth indicators.