Green growth: from intention to implementation.

Summary Since the end of the Second World War, the world has been on a growth path that has doubled per capita gross domestic product every 25 years. Since 1973, growth has been redeployed, starting with the rise of the emerging economies to correct the secular polarization of wealth in the Western countries and Japan. Fears that the wall of scarcity of raw materials would block the process have been thwarted. Demographics and the expansion of growth, on the other hand, threaten to alter major regulatory functions such as climate stability, the maintenance of biological diversity and the water cycle. Green growth consists in transforming the production and consumption processes to preserve or reconstitute these regulatory functions of natural capital.