Sustainable Economy Solutions

 

1. Carbon Tax
   a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
2. Ecological Economics
   a branch of economics that addresses the interdependence and co-evolution between human economies and natural ecosystems.
3. Ecological Footprint
   a metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population would hypothetically need to provide the resources required to support itself and to absorb its wastes, given prevailing technology.
4. Ecosystem Services
   processes by which the natural environment produces resources useful to people, akin to economic services. Measuring these services provides a tool for encouraging the preservation of ecosystems.
5. Ecotax (or Green Tax Shift)
   a fiscal policy intended to promote ecologically sustainable activities via economic incentives.
6. Environmental Sustainability Index
   a composite index tracking 21 elements of environmental sustainability covering natural resource endowments, past and present pollution levels, environmental management efforts, contributions to protection of the global commons, and a society's capacity to improve its environmental performance over time.
7. Equator Principles
   the project finance industry standard for addressing environmental and social issues when financing projects globally.
8. Fair Trade
   an organized social movement which promotes equitable standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in areas related to the production of labeled and unlabelled goods, which may range from handcrafts to agricultural commodities.
9. Genuine Progress Indicator
   a concept in green economics and welfare economics that has been suggested as a replacement metric for gross domestic product (GDP) as a metric of economic growth.
10. Global Sustainability Panel
    United Nations program brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities.
11. Green Economics
    an approach to economics in which the economy is considered to be a component of and dependent upon the natural world within which it resides and of which is it considered a part. It also takes the widest possible view of stakeholders of a transaction to include impacts, to nature, non human species, the planet, earth sciences, the biosphere.
12. Human Development Index
    a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare.
13. Hydrogen Economy
    a hypothetical future economy in which energy, for mobile applications (vehicles, aircraft) and electrical grid load balancing (daily peak demand reserve), is stored as hydrogen (H2).
14. Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
    an economic indicator intended to replace the gross domestic product. Consumer expenditure is balanced by such factors as income distribution and cost associated with pollution and other economically unsustaining costs. It is similar to the Genuine Progress Indicator.
15. Safe Trade
    a single framework of rules worldwide to drastically inhibit the flow of alien organisms, e.g. genetically modified seeds, imported animals, across the borders of ecoregions, to preserve their natural wild biodiversity.
16. The Natural Step
    pioneered a "Backcasting from Principles" approach to effectively advance society towards sustainability.