“A new way of thinking needed” says World Bank Vice President
Pointing to the “inherently unsustainable development path we are on,” World Bank Vice President Inger Andersen today called on governments, international aid agencies, and other development partners to join a new global knowledge platform aimed at fostering green growth. The platform, being developed jointly by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the OECD, aims to bring together proponents of sustainable development to promote and implement green growth policies by exchanging knowledge, information, and experience.
“As residents of developed countries,” said Andersen, the World Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development, “our pathway to prosperity has come through technological innovation and industrial production. This has brought many benefits but they have come at a significant price as we have seen depletion of our natural resources and harm to our environment. Increasingly today, we understand the true cost to the planet of this model of economic growth. Developing countries are looking for another, better way to pursue their own growth and reduce poverty, leapfrogging the polluting age of development. The world needs to have answers, not just for them but for all nations.”
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