GREEN ECONOMY – RISKS AND CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The concept of the green economy provides a response to the multiple crises that the world has been facing in recent years – the climate, food and economic crises – with an alternative paradigm that offers the promise of growth while protecting the earth’s ecosystems and, in turn, contributing to poverty reduction. In this way, the transition to a green economy will entail moving away from the system that allowed, and at times generated, these crises to a system that proactively addresses and prevents them.