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Green economy: Worldwide development trends and prospects

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The worsening global environmental situation and the growing risk of catastrophic climate change have been triggered, as the majority of scientists agree, by a high level of industrial emissions associated with the use of conventional technologies. A new sector in the world economy, based, first, on using safer and cleaner technologies in the industrial and, in particular, energy spheres and, second, on monitoring and forecasting environmental effects of one economic and industrial activity or another, is now gaining its strength. The paper contemplates the development of a so-called green sector of the economy and discusses the drivers and centers of its growth and the problems involved.

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Original Russian Text © B.N. Porfir’ev, 2012, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 323–333.

RAS Corresponding Member Boris Nikolaevich Porfir’ev is head of the laboratory for the analysis and forecasting of natural and technological economic risks at the RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting.

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Porfir’ev, B.N. Green economy: Worldwide development trends and prospects. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 82, 120–128 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331612020074

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