{"id":587,"date":"2011-06-02T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/06\/02\/chris-huhne-green-growth\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:28:52","slug":"chris-huhne-green-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/chris-huhne-green-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MP Chris Huhne welcomes OECD\u2019s Green Growth Strategy (statement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has today welcomed a new report on green growth from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The organisation\u2019s \u2018Towards Green Growth\u2019 report was launched at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting on 25 May.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chris Huhne said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a landmark report by the OECD which makes a strong case for greening growth, and it&#8217;s one that governments and businesses can&#8217;t afford to ignore. Green growth can cut emissions, help insulate against oil price shocks and bolster the fast-growing market for green goods and services \u2013 providing jobs, growth and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll all have to work together to encourage the massive investment that&#8217;s needed to benefit our planet and growth, and the OECD&#8217;s work on this agenda can make a real difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK&#8217;s already getting on with this by setting up the Green Investment Bank, putting in place the Green Deal, and reforming our electricity markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the &#8216;Towards Green Growth&#8221; report, click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/document\/10\/0,3746,en_2649_37465_44076170_1_1_1_37465,00.html\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has today welcomed a new report on green growth from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The organisation\u2019s \u2018Towards Green Growth\u2019 report was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}