![]() ![]() For growth to be legitimately considered ‘green’, it must be consistent with the climate targets and fairness principles of the Paris Agreement - but high-income countries have not achieved anything close to this, and are highly unlikely to achieve it in the future. Calling such highly insufficient emission reductions ‘green growth’ is misleading, it is essentially greenwashing. ![]() “It is a recipe for climate breakdown and further climate injustice. “There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries”, says lead author of the study, Jefim Vogel, from the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK. ![]() To investigate this claim, the new study compared carbon emission reductions in these countries with the reductions required under the Paris Agreement. Politicians and media have been celebrating recent decoupling achievements of high-income countries as “green growth” – claiming this could reconcile economic growth with climate targets. The emission reductions in the 11 high-income countries that have “decoupled” CO2 emissions from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall far short of the reductions that are necessary to limit global warming to 1.5☌ or even just to “well below 2☌” and comply with international fairness principles, as required by the Paris Agreement, according to a paper published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. ![]()
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