Interim Report of the Green Growth Strategy: Implementing our Commitment for a Sustainable Future

Foreword
The gravest crisis of our lifetimes is now receding, but this doesn’t mean that we are going back to normal. Policy makers around the world are now confronting a triple and very delicate challenge: record unemployment, unsustainable fiscal deficits and low growth. All this in a context where environmental and climate concerns are becoming an increasingly important component of economic policy.

Tackling these challenges efficiently will require a “policy hat trick” to generate the proper conditions for a sustainable growth path. But how can we achieve this when our traditional engines of growth are moving in slow motion? We need to rely on new sources of growth. There is no easy answer, but there are two clear opportunities that we can harness: innovation and green growth.

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