Green Transformation and Competitive Advantage: Evidence From Developing Countries

Developing country governments are increasingly committing to ‘greening’ their economies, most explicitly under the Paris Agreement, where nearly all governments agreed to establish national roadmaps for decarbonisation. Many developing country governments have furthermore enacted comprehensive national green growth strategies aimed at reducing their environmental footprints and turning this into new competitive advantage. Yet, empirical evidence on the economic co-benefits and costs of green transformations in terms of competitiveness, employment and wealth creation is still scarce.

 

The conference brought together research on the link between green transformation and competitiveness in developing and emerging countries (understood as non-OECD countries, but including Chile and Mexico). It does so by bridging various disciplines and methodologies, including e.g. patent data analysis, qualitative case studies, econometric research, foresight studies, and integrated assessment modelling. It combines keynotes, invited papers and papers selected via a call and review process. 

 

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