Transitioning to the Green Economy

With these new approaches to business, the important thing to take away from it is to not only see these businesses as individual pioneers trying a new approach.

They are trying to create a new way our economy could work and find new ways that people can be provided with the goods and services they expect without it being based on exploitation of either other people or the planet. This is why we emphasise them as building a new economy. Achim Steiner agrees, and in the video states that “the imperative of the 21st century is to re-invent our economies in line with what the planet can sustain”.