Foreword and acknowledgements

Towards Green Growth? Tracking Progress takes stock of country experience in implementing green growth since 2011. The 2011 OECD Green Growth Strategy provided important first guidance to governments on how to implement green growth by fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services vital to human well-being. Green growth implies transforming current modes of production and consumption across the entire economy at a global scale so as not to simply displace unsustainable production and consumption patterns. This report assesses common challenges experienced by OECD countries and partner economies since 2011 in aligning economic and environmental priorities for green growth. It seeks to accelerate progress by highlighting where there is scope to heighten the ambition and effectiveness of green growth policy in order to help countries seize available opportunities.