Global Agenda: Green Transition

Many around this planet are eagerly developing ways to add green into their economic growth, and a cleaner planet, while the U.S., who started down the road to alternative energy sources some forty years back, allowing the corporate nay sayers of certain industries to block that advancement, slogs along and falls behind rapidly. Little to none in private capital investment, hows that 'trickle down' workin for you, and some bashing Federal investment in growth and needed infrastructures.

Green Transition on the Global Agenda

In the run up to Rio, countries and companies are revving up their green transition

Oct 02, 2011 - Every country in the world is actively participating in preparations for Rio+20, the follow-up Earth Summit in Brazil, June 2012, to stimulate the transition to a green economy. The powerful 34 countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) have a Green Growth Strategy; the EU views "a transition to a green economy is imperative"; the US focuses on "elimination of fossil fuel subsidies"; and Switzerland calls for a "green economy roadmap." The Group of Friends on Green Economy includes governments of Egypt, Gabon, Grenada, Hungary, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, Sweden and Switzerland. UNEP-Bloomberg found that in 2010, for the first time, developing countries invested more in renewable energy than developed countries. read more>>>