Alle taler om det i modsætning til en “brun” økonomi med konventionelle energikilder – men hvad drejer det nye begreb sig om og er der noget i den forbindelse, vi bør bekymre os over? Her en gennemgang fra FN-nyhedsbureauet IRIN.
JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2012 (IRIN): Two consecutive power outages (nedbrud) affecting at least 600 million people spelt out India’s energy crisis as August began.
Caused in part by a coal shortage and in part by poor rains, the lack of power makes a strong case for an urgent global need to consider alternative sources of electricity.
Electricity is the engine that drives modern lives and economies, so seeking innovative sources of power implies that economies will also have to be run differently.
It is in this context that the term “green economy” – an alternative to a conventional or “brown” one that spews (udspyr) greenhouse (drivhus) gas and warms the atmos-phere – has gained some traction (tiltrækning).
A major internet search engine shows more than 29 million hits on “green economy”, which is considerable for a phrase that only came into regular use five years ago.
“Green economy” was the cause of controversy in the recent Rio+20 Earth Summit. Here is a quick look at what it is about, and whether we should be concerned about it.
What does it mean?
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96004/CLIMATE-CHANGE-Deciphering-a-green-economy
