define green economy
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The green economy is defined as an economy that aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment. It is closely related with ecological economics, but has a more politically applied focus
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The second theme of the Astana Ministerial Conference is ' Greening the economy: mainstreaming the environment into economic development' . The term ' green economy' is not consistently defined as it is still an emerging concept. The most widely used and authoritative green economy definition comes from UNEP.
The concept of green economy, in the context of poverty eradication and sustainable development, will attract further attention as it will be one of two key themes at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio in 2012 (Rio, 2012).
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