This report was prepared by the UN EMG's Issue Management Group on Green Economy to assess how the United Nations system could coherently support countries in transitioning to a green economy.
The analysis in this report focuses on selected production-consumption systems, which link environmental, social and economic systems across the world - generating earnings, supporting ways of living, and meeting consumer demands - and also account for much of humanity's burden on the environment
This paper describes the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition towards sustainability.
In the chapter “Competitiveness, Jobs, and Green Growth: A “Glocal” Model,” Geoffrey Lipman of Greenearth.travel and Victoria University Melbourne, with Terry Delacy and Paul Whitelaw of Victoria University Melbourne, present the conceptual and operational research led by the Victoria University