This report is a study of literature related to green growth. It is a study made by leading policy experts at UC Berkeley, California, and concludes that creating growth through emissions reduction policies is possible. They conclude that “Green Growth has some successes. However, each country will need to create its own version of green growth; one country’s success is probably not replicable; indeed – energy conditions, demand patterns, government capacities, coalitions – all differ, and hence national strategies will differ.

The study reviews the global literature on green growth and concludes that the claim that reduction of CO2 are inherently incompatible with economic growth, is false.