The OECD Green Growth Strategy aims to provide concrete recommendations and measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries’ efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development. This report was coordinated with the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Contents

Chapter 1. Transforming the energy sector to sustain growth
Green growth requires a green engine
Addressing systemic risks and imbalances
Global energy outlook
Implications of continuing current trends
Chapter 2. Promoting the transition to green growth
Green growth and energy: What’s at stake
Potential trade-offs and adjustment costs
Key technologies for green growth and energy
A policy framework for greening energy
Policies for green growth in specific energy sectors
Chapter 3. Implementing green energy: Reshaping the political economy
Political economy – achieving change in different country contexts
Structural adjustment
Stranded capital
Employment effects
Distributional effects
Chapter 4. Monitoring progress towards green growth
The OECD framework for green growth indicators
Energy related green growth indicators