An introduction to a feasibility study on green economy done by the Stockholm based think tank Global Utmaning

1. “A transition to a green and
sustainable economy”
Feasibility study
Global Utmaning and SEI
2012

2. An inclusive green economy - A change in
paradigm or greener shade of brown?
• Growing awareness that achieving
sustainability primarily will rest on getting the
economy right
• Increasingly recognised that the current
economic crises is not only temporary but
rather has been caused by its own logic
• Our hypothesis is that there is an urgent need
to speed up our learning process – current
stylized facts needs to be revisited

3. Deliverables
• An overview of key issues of importance for a transition
from the current economic regime to a green sustainable
economy.
• A summary of a number of top-ranking articles per issue.
• Reviews of the articles and summaries by the review-
groups connected to the project.
• Reports from the seminars
• A concluding paper on the main findings of the process

4. Seminars
• Energy and economic growth (19/1)
prof Astrid Kander, Lunds University
• How do me measure welfare? (22/2)
Stewart Wallis, New Economics Foundation
• Towards a circular economy (16/4)
prof Walter Stahel and Ernst von Weizsäcker
• How do we value nature? (9/5)
Pavan Sukhdev, UNEP
• Financial system and sustainability – Aug/Sept
• Etc

5. How do we value nature?
Pavan Sukhdev
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
9 May 2012