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