This book includes key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and major environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set. These indicators reflect environmental progress made since the early 1990s and thus contribute to measuring environmental performance. Organised by issues such as climate change, air pollution, biodiversity, waste or water resources, they provide essential information for all those interested in the environment and in sustainable development.
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.
This issue ADB's quarterly magazine explores the concept of green growth: the embracing of environmentally sound and sustainable policies with the need to maintain high economic growth. It features an exclusive interview with leading expert Ashok Khosla, who takes a hard look at the promises and failings of green growth. In other stories, the issue looks at pioneering efforts to deliver medicine through a soda company's distribution network. There is also an article on Cambodia's efforts to pursue green growth.