SDG7 Affordable and Clean Energy

The Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific is offered to member States to help their policymakers turn the till-now trade-off between the ecological crisis and economic growth into a synergy in which resource constraints and climate crisis become opportunities for the growth necessary to reduce poverty in the region.

Despite the increasing demands for policy options to make economic development green, a clear blueprint that can lead us to a green economy, especially developing countries, is not yet readily available.

Bhutan, the land of Gross National Happiness, is creating renewable energy from animal waste, while reducing air pollution and increasing agricultural outputs, as it also reduces the labor necessary to power rural homes.