OECD Green Growth Papers
The OECD Green Growth Strategy, launched in May 2011, provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries’ efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while at the same time ensure that natural assets continue to provide the ecosystems services on which our well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development.
OECD Green Growth Papers complement the OECD Green Growth Studies series, and aim to stimulate discussion and analysis on specific topics and obtain feedback from interested audiences.
- ISSN: 22260935 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22260935
Green Development Co-Operation in Zambia
An Overview
Embracing green growth can secure strong, stable and sustainable development. Green growth recognises
and integrates the value of natural capital into economic decision-making and development planning,
which is critical to avoid natural capital depletion, the worst of climate change and social and national
security risks (OECD, 2013). This is particularly true for developing countries, because of their
dependence on natural assets and acute exposure and vulnerability to environmental risks, ranging from
air, water and soil pollution, as well as natural resource scarcity and extreme weather events exacerbated
by climate change. A green growth policy framework recognises and aims to address both micro- and
macro-level pressures that countries face to grow their economies, while also managing environmental
risks. In poorer developing countries, micro-level pressures may include lack of access to basic services
such as shelter, fuel, water; while macro-level pressures are threats to stable livelihoods due to...
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