Croissance verte : implications pour la planification du développement

This guide by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) provides a framework for national planners and policymakers in developing countries to integrate 'green growth' into their strategic development planning. It emphasizes the use of economic tools to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability and social objectives, while highlighting the challenges of data scarcity and model transparency in developing contexts.

• Green growth is defined as a strategic approach that seeks to achieve economic development while simultaneously addressing climate change, the loss of natural capital and resources, and social goals such as poverty reduction.
• Green growth planning differs from classical economic planning by requiring an iterative process that adapts to local changes and incorporates additional considerations across several stages: vision, baseline assessment, option development, impact analysis, roadmap creation, and implementation.
• Effective green growth planners require three core competencies: understanding external drivers (such as international political processes and funding), knowledge of a wide range of policy instruments (including market-based and non-market-based tools), and the ability to identify and measure multi-faceted impacts beyond GDP.
• Various economic models are used for green growth planning, each with specific trade-offs. Macroeconomic models like Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) can model resource reallocation over time but are often 'black boxes' to decision-makers, while spatial models are useful for field-level decisions but difficult to integrate into sectoral planning.
• Developing countries, particularly Least Developed Countries (LDCs), face significant barriers to implementing sophisticated economic tools due to a lack of available data and limited resource capacities, necessitating pragmatic, tailor-made approaches.
• The document highlights that green growth policies can provide disproportionate co-benefits for developing countries compared to developed economies, such as improved local health and reduced local environmental pollution.

APA

Low, L. P. (2011). Croissance verte : implications pour la planification du développement. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CDKN_GreenGrowth_French.pdf

Chicago

Low, Lit Ping. Croissance verte : implications pour la planification du développement. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CDKN_GreenGrowth_French.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{low2011croissance, author = {Low, Lit Ping}, title = {{Croissance verte : implications pour la planification du développement}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2011}, month = sep, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/CDKN_GreenGrowth_French.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }