Background
Green growth means fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets
continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies. To do this
it must catalyse investment and innovation which will underpin sustained growth and give rise to new
economic opportunities.
A return to ?business as usual? would be unwise and ultimately unsustainable, involving risks that
could impose human costs and constraints on economic growth and development. It could result in
increased water scarcity, resource bottlenecks, air and water pollution, climate change and biodiversity
loss which would be irreversible; thus the need for strategies to achieve greener growth.