This essay discusses some current proposals for improving global environmental governance and suggests that the debate be shifted to the emerging paradigm of how to organize to achieve a green economy.
The world faces old and new security challenges that are more complex than our multilateral and national institutions are currently capable of managing.
The concept of the green economy presented in three reports from leading global organizations is examined in this paper.
This publication explores the commonalities between the existing and proposed paradigms and approaches to development that ensures well-being and respect for nature, and the concept of green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Any transition to a sustainable and equitable ‘green economy’ will require restructuring patterns of production, consumption and distribution and finding innovative development ‘alternatives’ to achieve justice on a global scale.