Environmental Economics: Cutting Semantics, Creating Genuine Green Growth for Survival

Laurence J. Brahm

Chapter Chapter 15 in Fusion Economics, 2014, pp 211-224 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beijing, 2012. At Rio+20, by far the most critical—and for me most unnerving—debate erupted over the definition of a “green economy.” In the Outcome Document, the definition was left vague and open to interpretation by industry, governments, and international financial institutions. Activists and NGOs deplored what they called the “financialization of nature”—“the notion that every watershed and water lily will be priced and pigeonholed as part of nature’s ‘environmental services’.”

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Efficient Energy; Carbon Footprint; Social Entrepreneur; Green Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137444189_16

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