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Green New Deal: Policy Brief

Global Green New Deal - Policy Brief

In early 2009 when the world was facing an unprecedented financial meltdown, UNEP, the UN Environment Programme, spearheded a global research effort to assess prospects for a new global economic framework that mainstreamed sustainability and development along with renewed growth, energy efficiency and job creation. This became the basis for the so called  "green new deal", subsequently termed the Green Economy which has become a key plank of UN system and G20 strategy..

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Travel & Tourism in the Green Economy

  

Travel & Tourism in the Green Economy 

The Green Economy is the global strategic response to economic recession; the war on poverty and above all Climate Change.  This paper positions the Tourism & Travel sector in that paradigm shift. It analyses what the term Green Economy means. Underscores the complex, massive transformation process of change needed and the multi-decade time frame. It places T&T in that process both as a potential catalyst of change and as a component of the transformation. To paraphrase Achim Steiner UN Undersecretary General and Head of UNEP it will be like building a global eco mosaic with pieces greening at different paces, But with no exceptions and starting now.

To understand this dramatic, long term transformation I commend Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded" the layman's guide to solutions to a warming,globalizing, overpopulating world .

Source Geoffrey Lipman 2009

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