The Green Economy Progress Measurement Framework Overview

 
The 
Green Economy 
Progress
(GEP) Measurement Framework
 
Fulai Sheng
Senior Economist
UN Environment
 
The Green Economy Narrative
 
An Inclusive Green Economy (IGE): 
too
l for 
sustainable development;
response to 
3 challenges
: poverty, inequitable sharing of prosperity, and
overstepped planetary boundaries.
 
IGE contributes to poverty eradication and shared prosperity by
safeguarding planetary boundaries: climate, freshwater, ocean, and land
covered by SDGs.
 
Need for an integrated and inclusive policymaking approach at the levels of
policy goals and targets, policy choices, policy impacts, and policy
participation by stakeholders.
 
 
The GEP 
Measurement
 Framework
 
GEP index:  
track 
progress
 relative to desired changes,
impacting current well-being
 
weighted progress by countries on targets within thresholds
across several indicators
Indicates a country’s overall progress towards IGE
 
Dashboard: 
monitors the 
sustainability
 of well-being for
future generations
tracks main forms of natural capital & stocks of other capital that
affects long term sustainability
 
GEP+ 
ranking:
 
comparing 
dashboard 
indicators with 
GEP
index
.
 
Indicators
 
GEP index: 13 indicators
Related to Green Industry: g
reen trade,
green patents, material footprint,
energy use, renewable energy
Dashboard: 6 indicators
 
Selection criteria
Mapping with IGE narrative
Data coverage (country and time)
Transparency and comparability (data
accessibility)
Linkages with SDGs’ headline indicators
(14 direct links to 10 of the 17 SDGs)
 
GEP index
 
Measure IGE progress based on 3 ideas:
 
1.
Identifying key IGE dimensions
, each approximated
by one or several variables;
 
2.
Focusing on 
progress
, i.e. changes rather than levels;
 
3.
Measuring progress relative to targets & thresholds.
 
Targets
 refer to desired changes, whereas 
thresholds
define some critical levels;
 
Weight 1 
gives information at the indicator level with
respect to the critical threshold, while 
weight 2 
gives
information about priorities across indicators.
 
Final Remarks
 
In 2014, 83 out of 105 countries (79%) progressed on IGE compared to 2004
Remaining challenges: increasing material footprint & overstepped planetary boundaries
Dashboard: on average countries are making regress in sustainability indicators
 
GEP+: 17 out of 100 countries were able to make progress in dashboard & GEP index
 
Methodology: flexible (e.g. green industry)
UNIDO’s Green Industry programme and GEP Measurement framework under PAGE
Green Industry Progress (GIPro) Index for 18 Chinese Provinces using GEP methodology
GEP measurement framework &  Inclusive & Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) (in
progress)
 
PAGE’s website: 
http://un-page.org/learning-resources/technical-guidance/green-economy-
progress-measurement-framework
 
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The Green Economy Progress (GEP) Measurement Framework, spearheaded by Fulai Sheng, a Senior Economist at UN Environment, emphasizes an Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) as a tool for sustainable development. It addresses poverty, inequitable prosperity sharing, and planetary boundary concerns by integrating policies and indicators for tracking progress and well-being sustainability over time. The GEP index and dashboard evaluate countries' advancements towards IGE, focusing on natural capital and sustainable practices. Challenges remain, such as material footprint increase and planetary boundary breaches. The methodology is flexible, incorporating green industry initiatives to enhance sustainability globally.


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  1. The Green Economy Progress (GEP) Measurement Framework Fulai Sheng Senior Economist UN Environment

  2. The Green Economy Narrative An Inclusive Green Economy (IGE): tool for sustainable development; response to 3 challenges: poverty, inequitable sharing of prosperity, and overstepped planetary boundaries. IGE contributes to poverty eradication and shared prosperity by safeguarding planetary boundaries: climate, freshwater, ocean, and land covered by SDGs. Need for an integrated and inclusive policymaking approach at the levels of policy goals and targets, policy choices, policy impacts, and policy participation by stakeholders.

  3. The GEP Measurement Framework GEP index: track progress relative to desired changes, impacting current well-being weighted progress by countries on targets within thresholds across several indicators Indicates a country s overall progress towards IGE Dashboard: monitors the sustainability of well-being for future generations tracks main forms of natural capital & stocks of other capital that affects long term sustainability GEP+ ranking: comparing dashboard indicators with GEP index.

  4. Indicators GEP index: 13 indicators Related to Green Industry: green trade, green patents, material footprint, energy use, renewable energy Dashboard: 6 indicators Selection criteria Mapping with IGE narrative Data coverage (country and time) Transparency and comparability (data accessibility) Linkages with SDGs headline indicators (14 direct links to 10 of the 17 SDGs)

  5. GEP index Measure IGE progress based on 3 ideas: 1. Identifying key IGE dimensions, each approximated by one or several variables; 2. Focusing on progress, i.e. changes rather than levels; 3. Measuring progress relative to targets & thresholds. Targets refer to desired changes, whereas thresholds define some critical levels; Weight 1 gives information at the indicator level with respect to the critical threshold, while weight 2 gives information about priorities across indicators.

  6. Final Remarks In 2014, 83 out of 105 countries (79%) progressed on IGE compared to 2004 Remaining challenges: increasing material footprint & overstepped planetary boundaries Dashboard: on average countries are making regress in sustainability indicators GEP+: 17 out of 100 countries were able to make progress in dashboard & GEP index Methodology: flexible (e.g. green industry) UNIDO s Green Industry programme and GEP Measurement framework under PAGE Green Industry Progress (GIPro) Index for 18 Chinese Provinces using GEP methodology GEP measurement framework & Inclusive & Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) (in progress) PAGE s website: http://un-page.org/learning-resources/technical-guidance/green-economy- progress-measurement-framework

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