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Pavan Sukdev on the failure of politicians to understand nature and how progress is possible without economic growth.
Green Economist, Born in New Delhi, India (March 30, ), UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Founding Trustee of the Green Indian States Trust (GIST), Founder & CEO.!
Pavan Sukhdev
Indian environmental economist (born )
Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance.
He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growing wealth, increasing decent employment, and reducing persistent poverty.
Pavan was also the Study Leader for the ground breaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) study commissioned by G8+5 and hosted by UNEP. Under his leadership, TEEB sized the global problem of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in economic and human welfare terms, and proposed solutions targeted at policy-makers, administrators, businesses and citizens.
TEEB presented its widely acclaimed Final Report suite at the UN meeting by Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya (Nagoya Protocol), Japan.[1