This study offers a critical review of the strengths and weaknesses of various methodologies, and of the adequacy of models to help countries to assess their economies and develop green economy strategies. This report, however, does not identify the best approaches for formulating and evaluating green economy strategies; instead, it provides key information for the ministries tasked with planning and implementing responsibilities to evaluate the adequacy of various models in meeting their specific needs.
The key message emerging from the study is that Green Economy can be an effective tool in transitioning Egypt into a sustainable development path that can address the main challenges facing the country. This publication is supplemented with a document showcasing successful existing green initiatives in Egypt. The Green Economy: Egypt Success Stories highlights local ventures, cleaner production centres, financial assistance programmes and entrepreneurial projects that are successful in generating economic, social and environmental benefits. It aims to inform policy makers and businessmen about the financial and economic viability of green investments and business.
In this perspective, the project “Enhancing South-South Cooperation – Building the Capacity of Developing Countries to Promote Green Economies” provides a forum to share the South’s various experiences and national-level initiatives for transitioning to resource efficient, low carbon and socially inclusive economies. The project also addresses the use of indicators for green economy policymaking, implementation and evaluation. Through this knowledge exchange platform, it aims to raise awareness of different concepts and, at the same time, inspire and support the participant countries of the ASEAN region in pursuing their pathways to sustainable development.
This paper reviewed systematically practices and progresses of international and domestic emission trading policy in China during the past two decades, and concluded that emission trading is broadly used in the air pollutants reduction in USA, and the global carbon reduction with better effects, the emission trading policy exploration in China could be roughly divided into three stages: Initial Development stage (1988-2000), Piloting exploration stage (2001-2006), Deepening Piloting stage (2007-). Also, nine characteristics of the current emission trading practice in China were concluded and six key issues influencing the advancement of emission trading piloting were identified and discussed. And lastly, the paper proposed the pilot roadmap for implementation of the emission trading, and pointed out that efforts in the near future should focus on the construction of “six systems”, that are key technical supporting system, fair and reasonable allocation system of the emission permit, emission trading market system, laws and regulations system, pollution source monitoring and management system, and law enforcement and supervision system.
This paper is primarily a critical analysis of the social sustainability assumptions of green growth. It examines the extent to which the overall approach and assumptions inherent in the green growth model allow it to adequately address key social sustainability underpinnings of sustainable development e.g. multi-dimensional poverty, inequality and social justice. In so doing, the potential for green growth to deliver in important ways for poor and marginalized individuals is also considered. The false dichotomy that may unintentionally be created between economic efficiency and social equity considerations is investigated in further depth. Employing a social justice lens informed by the existing socio-environmental and socio-ecological literature, explicit and inexplicit synergies, trade-offs and conflicts are explored. A largely theoretical review, it will also be complemented by analysis of one of the more well-known sustainable development public policy responses to-date: biofuels. Advancing a more multidimensional theoretical approach to the longstanding problem of sustainable development i.e.