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    Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia
    Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia
    Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia
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    Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia

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    Irresponsible and inefficient use of natural resources (excessive use of drinking water, air and water pollution, wasteful energy use, etc.) can lead to irreparable consequences (climate change, loss of biodiversity, etc.) and create obstacles to economic growth and development, but it can also pose a threat to human well-being. Therefore, guidelines are required to achieve “greener” growth and criteria for monitoring progress in achieving this goal.
    In June 2009 ministers from 30 OECD countries and 4 candidate countries signed the OECD Declaration on Green Growth with which they would strengthen the efforts for putting into force the Green Growth Strategy as the response to the crisis in which they acknowledged that green and growth can go hand in hand.
    The OECD prepared the Green Growth Strategy in which it combined the various economic, environmental, technological and development aspects into a unified framework strengthening the various aspects of economic and environmental policies.

    The publication, which is the first attempt to present these indicators for Slovenia, brings 19 green growth indicators and their trends in a certain period. The indicators are divided into four groups and show to what degree the green growth strategy is being enforced in Slovenia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStatistični urad Republike Slovenije
    Release dateOct 23, 2014
    ISBN9789612393144
    Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia
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    Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

    Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia is the main producer and co-ordinator of carrying out programs of statistical surveys. In addition to linking and co-ordinating the statistical system, its most important tasks include international co-operation, determining methodological and classification standards, anticipating users' needs, collection, processing and dissemination of data, and taking care of data confidentiality.

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      Green Growth Indicators for Slovenia - Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

      Green growth indicators for Slovenia

      Original title: Kazalniki zelene rasti

      Mojca Žitnik, Martin Šteharnik, Teja Rutar

      Published by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

      on Smashwords

      Copyright SURS

      Ljubljana, 2014

      Translated by Marina Urbas

      The publication is available at www.stat.si/eng/pub.asp

      Information: Information Centre

      phone: + 386 1 241 64 04

      e-mail: info.stat@gov.si

      CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji

      Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana

      311:502(0.034.2)

      ŽITNIK, Mojca, 1970-

              Green growth indicators for Slovenia [Elektronski vir] / authors Mojca Žitnik, Martin Šteharnik, Teja Rutar ; translated by Martina Urbas. - El. knjiga. - Ljubljana : Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2014. - (Collection Brochures)

      ISBN 978-961-239-313-7 (pdf)

      ISBN 978-961-239-314-4 (ePub)

      1. Gl. stv. nasl. 2. Šteharnik, Martin 3. Rutar, Teja

      276007936

      Issued and published by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Litostrojska cesta 54 – © SURS – Use and publication of data is allowed provided the source is acknowledged– ISBN 978-961-239-314-4

      FOREWORD

      Green growth means fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our prosperity relies. New findings prove that GDP as the only measure of economic progress is not sufficient, as it does not take into account the contribution of natural assets to prosperity. Not taking into regard the level of exploitation of the natural assets and other impacts on the environment can cause irreparable damage. Economic development has to be planned with consideration to the natural assets – by taking into account that their quantities are limited.

      In order to efficiently encourage green growth, besides national cooperation also international cooperation is required. Based on the results of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, OECD developed a clear and focused agenda on sustainable development and internationally comparable green growth indicators, on the basis of which progress shall be monitored.

      This publication is the first one that reveals the green growth indicators for Slovenia; part of the indicators was selected from the recommended OECD list of indicators and we supplemented them with some other indicators which further describe the actualisation of green growth in Slovenia. Then also other indicators were added, revealing how the national natural resources are exploited (to what extent we are aware of their limitations), how we get along in selected waste collection, whether we reduce the pollution of drinking water to a

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