Context
According to a study, Emission reductions highly insufficient for 11 high income countries including Canada and Australia; calling there ‘green growth’ is misleading and greenwashing.
Greenwashing: Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or misleading information about how a company’s products are environmentally sound. |
What is ‘Green Growth’?
Green Growth vs. Sustainable Growth:
Key findings of the study
The Paris Agreement is a treaty signed by 196 countries to limit “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. |
What do decoupling means?
Decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth is one of the main objectives of the OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century, adopted by OECD Environment Ministers in 2001. |
Green Growth and India’s stand
Government Interventions:
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