A New Blueprint for a Green Economy, after setting out the worrying state of Earth’s ecology, explains what the authors believe are the three key policies to achieving sustainability: valuation of the environment, accounting for environmental impacts, and incentives to mitigate environmental impacts. With the planet at or beyond the limits of what it can cope with in terms of factors such as ozone depletion and ocean acidification, this book explains how the environment can be saved by ‘greening’ the economy – whereby the cost to the environment, and of restoring it, is factored into the viability of business activity, so ensuring that practices which are detrimental to the environment are not profitable. This book is an update of the authors’ original academic work, Blueprint for a Green Economy.
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A New Blueprint for a Green Economy, after setting out the worrying state of Earth’s ecology, explains what the authors believe are the three key policies to achieving sustainability: valuation of the environment, accounting for environmental impacts, and incentives to mitigate environmental impacts. With the planet at or beyond the limits of what it can cope with in terms of factors such as ozone depletion and ocean acidification, this book explains how the environment can be saved by ‘greening’ the economy – whereby the cost to the environment, and of restoring it, is factored into the viability of business activity, so ensuring that practices which are detrimental to the environment are not profitable. This book is an update of the authors’ original academic work, Blueprint for a Green Economy.