Country efforts to implement green growth

This chapter provides a preliminary assessment of the major challenges to implementing green growth policy frameworks at the national level. The challenges are derived from the green growth policy recommendations contained in the country surveillance work that the OECD has completed since the release of the 2011 Green Growth Strategy (Economic Surveys, Environmental Policy Reviews, Investment Policy Reviews and Reviews of Innovation Policy). The most common green growth challenges relate to: implementing market instruments to price pollution and natural-resource use orienting tax systems to advance green growth designing environmentally relevant subsidies and gearing sectoral policy towards green growth. The challenges are not exhaustive, but provide useful lessons for governments on how to accelerate and improve green growth policy implementation, and allow for the identification of a number of broader observations on country experience to date.