"Green Growth and Poverty Reduction," a new paper by the OECD, explores how OECD green growth policies can be designed in order to maximise the positive synergies and minimise the negatives effects on pro-poor growth in developing countries. The paper looks across three themes: climate change, biodiversity and innovation policy, and a number of specific issues, including agricultural livelihoods, fisheries livelihoods and the energy and mining sectors. Three case studies, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the reform of EU biofuels policy, and EU fisheries access, are presented and lessons for the green growth agenda are derived.
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