Delivering Inclusion in a Green Economy

The policy brief asserts that a green economy will only succeed if it is inclusive, ensuring that marginalized groups, such as small-scale farmers and informal workers, have a stake in the transition. It highlights that while some international frameworks and national strategies exist, there is still a lack of meaningful participation in policymaking and a need for strategies to scale decent green jobs. The document proposes several priorities for the 2019 PAGE Ministerial, including the economic empowerment of women and youth and the adoption of innovative social policies like universal basic income or payments for ecosystem services to ensure a just transition.

• A green economy cannot succeed without accounting for the needs and ambitions of vulnerable groups, including small-scale farmers, coal miners, and informal waste-pickers, as the conventional economy has historically excluded hundreds of millions of people in informal jobs and agriculture.
• While inclusive 'green growth' is being explored globally—with the Global Green Growth Institute advising 26 governments and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy supporting 12 countries—governments often remain reluctant to open up policymaking processes to marginalized groups.
• To achieve a socially inclusive transition, the document identifies several missing priorities: the need for industrial policies to create millions of green jobs, the meaningful participation of civil society in policy design, and the prioritization of poverty eradication.
• Innovative social policies are being piloted globally to link environmental and social protection, including community utility ownership models, universal basic income/services, and combined conditional social transfers with payments for ecosystem services.

APA

Green Economy Coalition (n.d.). Delivering Inclusion in a Green Economy. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Cape-Town-Global-Meet-2019/PAGE-GEC-inclusion-policy-briefing_final.pdf

Chicago

Green Economy Coalition. Delivering Inclusion in a Green Economy. n.d. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Cape-Town-Global-Meet-2019/PAGE-GEC-inclusion-policy-briefing_final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greeneconomycoalitionnddelivering, author = {{Green Economy Coalition}}, title = {{Delivering Inclusion in a Green Economy}}, institution = {Green Economy Coalition}, url = {https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Cape-Town-Global-Meet-2019/PAGE-GEC-inclusion-policy-briefing_final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }