Promote the Green Economy

  • 2015
Table of contents hide 1 What is the Green Economy? 2 Tips to promote the green economy 3 Promote the conservation of natural areas 3.1 Green economy in agriculture. 3.2 Sustainable economy in the city. 3.3 Green economy in tourism. 4 The United Nations Organization. 5 Foster changes in production models 6 Benefits of a green economy

What is the Green Economy?

The green economy is the design of new economic rules focused on the restructuring of environmental policies that cover the infinity of factors that are involved in health maintenance of the planet and its inhabitants. We must promote the green economy because there are factors that influence the deterioration of the environment, these are so varied that they range from the food we consume to the infrastructure in which we live, the way we transport ourselves, the way we pack food and medicine.

Tips to promote the green economy

The promotion of this economy implies the coordinated work of all countries to fight together and try to eliminate pollutants by improving the state of conservation of natural spaces, raising public awareness with conservation campaigns, developing policies on fisheries, producing the change in consumption of contaminating fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline, kerosene among others; with the implementation of electrical energy, solar energy and other sources that are not polluting.

Green Economy

Promote the conservation of natural spaces

Green economy in agriculture.

In green agriculture, production is based on ecological practices always seeking the preservation of natural resources, applying techniques that eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Having pest control through crop rotation. Obtaining thus more natural foods without affecting the flora and fauna around the planting.

Sustainable economy in the city.

Companies normally have a linear production where the raw material is extracted from the earth and converted into a product. Due to the amount of garbage that is agglomerated in cities and the increasingly low levels of natural resources, companies are invited to adopt the so-called circular economy . This new economy takes advantage of waste and converts it into valuables by applying the 3Rs (recycle, reduce and reuse).

Green economy in tourism.

If public policies and the support of private companies are adequate, it is possible to boost green sustainable tourism. Where people invest their free time in natural areas very carefully s. This would be a source of work as well as support for the economy of the countries.

The United Nations Organization.

At the UN meetings, the countries that make it up committed themselves to work in the following years to promote the green economy, although the concept is not yet clear, it refers to an economy that respects the environment, but the question is how Underdeveloped countries can invest in new technologies and not exploit their natural resources if their citizens are hungry. The concept of green economy is difficult to promote because of the costs and the complicated control of environmental pollution . Despite this, they recognize that something must be done with the environmental crisis that is being experienced and that they are making some changes in the production models, so that they are within the principles of sustainability.

Promote changes in production models

Benefits of a green economy

  1. Take advantage of resources efficiently.
  2. It can generate jobs.
  3. It slows climate change.
  4. It will evolve society and its culture.
  5. It is open to discussions and generates a new investment field for the economy.
  6. It does not harm the environment.

When starting a business whose main resource is natural, it is necessary to support it with mathematical models that verify the continuity of the species or resource, it cannot be thought that excessive actions in other countries will not affect them when we have a globalized system. We must find a way to promote green economy and ethics in investors.

AUTHOR: Antonio, editor of the great family of hermandadblanca.org

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