The Green Economy Coalition's August update highlights the need for fairness, a resilient financial system that can serve the real economy, and policies that support resilient and stable economic growth, underlining that these can be achieved under the green economy.
It also features a Caribbean initiative to identify and promote ways for green economy approaches to advance sustainable development in the Caribbean.
August 2012: The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) has released its August 2012 update, outlining factors that would support an economic reform to achieve sustainable development and help attain the Coalition’s vision of a green economy. These include: the need for fairness, a resilient financial system that can serve the real economy, and policies that support resilient and stable economic growth.
The update underlines that these factors can be achieved under the green economy, and also emphasizes the importance of good economic governance.
The August issue also contains articles on: a new WWF report titled “The Heart of Borneo: Investing in Nature for a Green Economy,” outlining a pathway to a green economy in the Heart of Borneo; the Caribbean Green Economy Action Learning Group, which was launched to identify and promote ways for green economy approaches to advance sustainable development in the Caribbean; and the special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies on “green grabbing,” the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends. [Publication: August Update]