Enabling conditions Enabling condition Rationale: How it enables


Prices that reflect true costs of goods and services


When the price of an unsustain- able good or service does not reflect its true social cost, it is more likely to be used to excess, leading to overexploitation of natural resources, inefficiency and waste. Prices that reflect true costs can make green opportunities relatively more attractive for businesses and investors alike.


Infrastructure


Existence of key green infra- structure


Some sectors require specific pieces of infrastructure that are a prerequisite for further investment, e.g. electricity grids able to handle large fluc- tuations in supply, telecommu- nications services that provide farming data.


Information


Increased data and analysis about ecological conditions


Policy must be informed by ac- curate information, and in most cases data collection needs to be improved.


See Modelling chapter for information about measurement indicators


A workforce equipped with the skills needed to take advantage of green opportunities


As many of the innovations in green sectors require particular skills and knowledge, the workforce will need to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities.


Retraining and support schemes for workers using new techniques or changing employment to new sectors (e.g. workshops, secondary and tertiary education)


Support to encourage the take-up of new technology


Local, national, regional and interna- tional knowledge-sharing and skills workshops, participatory learning


Increased awareness about sustainability challenges


Increased awareness of sustain- ability challenges will increase popular demand for green goods and services, and for policies that support them.


Increased information about life-cycle costs of goods and services


Increased information about the life-cycle costs of goods and services helps consumers choose which products they would prefer to buy and can increase the market share of green good and services.


Educational initiatives, e.g. a govern- ment vision for the green economy, information campaigns, material in state education


Label and certification schemes, green audits, or legal requirements for disclosure, designed to be affordable and verifiable


→ Agriculture, Fisheries, Tourism, Transport, Waste


Public works programmes; policy structure similar to green subsidies (e.g. PFIs, PPPs, low-interest loans, feed-in tariffs, etc.)


Measures that can create the enabling condition


Reform of harmful subsidies


Environmentally related taxation, other tax instruments, certificate trading markets, fees and charges


Payments for ecosystem services


Sectors in which these measures are particularly important


→ Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Water


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Agriculture, Buildings, Cities, Fisheries, Forests, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Transport, Waste, Water


→ Agriculture, Forests


→ Agriculture, Cities, Fisheries, Renewable Energy


→ Agriculture, Cities, Fisheries, Manufacturing, Tourism, Transport, Waste


→ Renewable Energy, Transport → Agriculture, Tourism, Waste


→ Agriculture, Buildings, Fisheries, Forests, Tourism, Transport, Waste


→ Agriculture, Buildings, Forests, Manufacturing, Tourism, Waste


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