{"id":988,"date":"2012-02-23T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/02\/23\/earthdebates-press-release-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T11:31:11","slug":"earthdebates-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/earthdebates-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Debates Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>HOW CAN WE MEASURE PROGRESS?<br \/> <\/em><\/strong><strong>EARTH DEBATES \u2013 FLAGSHIP EVENT SERIES IN PREPARATION OF RIO+20 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-986\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"edfullcolourweb\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/edfullcolourweb.jpg\" height=\"79\" width=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">London \u2013 22nd February, 2012<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> \u2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a universal measure of a country\u2019s economic activity and output, yet it takes no account of the appreciation or deprecation of a country\u2019s building infrastructure, or of the condition of its natural resources and the ecosystem services provided by the environment, such as crop pollination. Furthermore, GDP provides no measure of the health, wealth, or wellbeing of a country\u2019s population, or how these are distributed across society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">While GDP remains the most important measure for international financing, alternative measures, which take into account natural and social capital, are needed to incentivise investment in a green economy. This raises some key questions: Do alternative measurements of progress exist? Why will measuring things differently lead to changes in what we do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To download the full press release click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"Press Release - Earth Debates Beyond GDP - 22nd Feb 2012\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW CAN WE MEASURE PROGRESS? EARTH DEBATES \u2013 FLAGSHIP EVENT SERIES IN PREPARATION OF RIO+20 London \u2013 22nd February, 2012 \u2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a universal measure of a country\u2019s economic activity&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-es-press-coverage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/edfullcolourweb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}