Green Growth Leaders is happy to announce the plans for 2012. The year’s activities reflect the exciting opportunities and new ideas to document, demonstrate and communicate the benefits of green growth, that have surfaced the last year. Below you will find a short description of the individual projects and some of the dates that you should reserve already now.
Activities for 2012
The Index- Launch June 4th, 2012
As an economic and political concept green growth is still in its infancy. Literature, data, and research is limited and knowledge is fragmented, despite political declarations. The Index will address this uncertainty. Based on the best available know-how, it will provide decision makers with tools to assess how and if the global economy and individual nations are making progress towards a more sustainable economic model. The Index will propose a set of quantitative indicators for the green economy, and on this basis rank nations according to their performance in all three dimensions of sustainability: Economic, social and environmental. It will track the global trend, and in addition deliver qualitative criteria for business and cities that advance the green economy.
Guide to Copenhagen 2025- launch June 4th, 2012
Guide to Copenhagen 2025 develops and distributes a storytelling model for cities that demonstrate how green growth goes beyond energy and clean-tech and creates sustainable living which benefits the individual citizen in terms of health, safety, and quality of life. Guide to Copenhagen 2025 introduces visitors, investors and Copenhageners to the carbon neutral city in 2025 with new neighborhoods, sights, ways to get around, places to see and things to shop. It includes the traditional chapters such as: “History”, “People and culture”, “Getting around”, “Architecture” and is built on the existing plans for Copenhagen to ensure a solid point of departure and display a desirable, but realistic and tangible image.
The Socio-Economic Effects of Sustainable Buildings
During Take Lead – as documented in the whitepaper – we were able to identify a number of examples of potential societal gains from sustainable retrofitting and new buildings, due to improved indoor climate, fresh air and light. Buildings was the theme where the co-benefits were most evident and big. These included avoided health costs (e.g. allergies), improved learning environment at schools and universities, increased productivity in workplaces, environmental benefits and improvement in the quality of life. The study will seek to decument the potential effects of more sustainable houses, offices, schools etc. in terms of increased livability, productivity and learning
Millenium Trial: Making the Case for the Green Economy
A combined expert workshop and youth event to debate and communicate the evidence behind sustainable growth. Green Growth Leaders stages a trial (including court room, lawyers, jurors, indictment etc), where international “green economists” seek to prove to “traditional economists” that sustainable investments pay off for society as a whole – attended by a jury and an audience of future generations- the young students.
