Towards a green economy for Canada

From the reverberations of the silver lining), is the appreciation it has created 2008-09 financial meltdown to the rise of the for enhanced understanding and management BRICs1 and other emerging economies, the of risk among the business and policy global economic landscape is being communities. [...] In and other interrelated problems, such as a addressing these questions, the White Paper focus on the short-term and the fact that begins with an exploration of how the concept environmental externalities are not, for the of a green economy/greening the economy has most part, valued by the current economic been defined internationally and domestically system. [...] The Paper examines the green economy up until now, with a view to informing a more at both the macro- and micro-economic levels, relevant definition that is adapted to the specifically looking at the implications for the Canadian context. [...] The GREENING THE ECONOMY basis of these co-benefits is a new understanding of the gap that exists between Fundamentally, the concept of a green theoretical economic models (which assume economy needs to be rooted in the larger perfect efficiency) and real markets (which are context of economic growth. [...] The most widely used definitions of the green A broader definition of the green economy can economy have been elaborated by international refer to an economy that minimizes organizations such as the United Nations environmental impacts while not sacrificing Environment Program (UNEP) and the economic growth and prosperity.