The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Chapter on Green Growth)

The chapter on green growth first seeks to place the concept of green growth within the history of recent discourses of environmental protection. It then distinguishes between a “standard” version of green growth and a “strong” interpretation which seeks to present a much bolder argument to policy-makers. Three different forms of this argument are identified and the evidence for them surveyed. Finally the chapter asks whether the idea of green growth is likely to be “successful”. Will its arguments prove sufficiently convincing, and the interests gathered around it sufficiently strong, to change the priorities of economic policy-making?