What can be done to achieve a truly green global economic system? This question - more pertinent than ever with the current economic, food and energy crises – guides our blog on global green economics. The blog was launched at the 2nd Degrowth conference in Barcelona (26-29 March 2010) and also ran at the Third International Conference on Eco-Efficiency in June 2010 and at the ISEE conference 'Advancing sustainability in a time of crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany.

The Broker will keep publishing articles on this theme, following the special report by Jeffrey Sachs and Peter May on greening the global economy (issue 18) and the articles on how to measure well-being by Jose da Veiga and on the flaws of GDP by Jeroen van den Bergh (issue 19) and Ed Barbier's article on the Global Green New Deal (issue 20/21).