The Green Economy is based on the premise that social and economic progress must be achieved in ways that will not exhaust the earth's finite natural resources and that will cope with the concerns over lack of natural resources, environmental devastation, and climate change.
The concept is a culmination of extensive thinking, discussion and analysis that can be traced back to the 1980's. At the UN Conference on
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