{"id":2005,"date":"2012-02-23T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xsf.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/02\/23\/earthdebates-press-release\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T12:04:17","slug":"earthdebates-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/earthdebates-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Debates Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>HOW CAN WE MEASURE PROGRESS?<br \/> <\/em><\/strong><strong>EARTH DEBATES \u2013 FLAGSHIP EVENT SERIES IN PREPARATION OF RIO+20 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"edfullcolourweb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/images\/stories\/edfullcolourweb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" \/>London \u2013 22nd February, 2012<\/strong> \u2013  Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a universal measure of a country\u2019s  economic activity and output, yet it takes no account of the  appreciation or deprecation of a country\u2019s building infrastructure, or  of the condition of its natural resources and the ecosystem services  provided by the environment, such as crop pollination. Furthermore, GDP  provides no measure of the health, wealth, or wellbeing of a country\u2019s  population, or how these are distributed across society.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While  GDP remains the most important measure for international financing,  alternative measures, which take into account natural and social  capital, are needed to incentivise investment in a green economy. This  raises some key questions: Do alternative measurements of progress  exist? Why will measuring things differently lead to changes in what we  do?<\/p>\n<p>To download the full press release click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"..\/fileadmin\/files\/Press%20Release%20-%20Earth%20Debates%20Beyond%20GDP%20-%2022nd%20Feb%202012.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW CAN WE MEASURE PROGRESS? EARTH DEBATES \u2013 FLAGSHIP EVENT SERIES IN PREPARATION OF RIO+20 London \u2013 22nd February, 2012 \u2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a universal measure of a country\u2019s economic activity&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}