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Is there a greener way to rank successful economies?
Many blame our obsession with economic growth as being one of the biggest drivers of climate change. The United Nations is currently looking at options for what might replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the world’s primary go-to indicator of success, taking into account factors including sustainability and the natural environment. If this happens, it would be the biggest shift in how economies are measured since nations first started using GDP in 1953, 70 years ago.
Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Ehsan Masood, author, science journalist and an editor at the journal, Nature;
Diane Coyle, economist and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge;
Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University;
Fouty-Boulanga Mouleka, on-the-ground reporter in Gabon
Producer: Ben Cooper
Researchers: Matt Toulson, Pierre-Antoine Denis, Bethan Ashmead-Latham and Laura Cain
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins
Sound engineer: Tom Brignell
Production Coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill
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Many blame our obsession with economic growth as being one of the biggest drivers of climate change. The United Nations is currently looking at options for what might replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the world’s primary go-to indicator of success, taking into account factors including sustainability and the natural environment. If this happens, it would be the biggest shift in how economies are measured since nations first started using GDP in 1953, 70 years ago.
Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Ehsan Masood, author, science journalist and an editor at the journal, Nature;
Diane Coyle, economist and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge;
Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University;
Fouty-Boulanga Mouleka, on-the-ground reporter in Gabon
Producer: Ben Cooper
Researchers: Matt Toulson, Pierre-Antoine Denis, Bethan Ashmead-Latham and Laura Cain
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins
Sound engineer: Tom Brignell
Production Coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill
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