Green economy indicators for Poland and other European Union countries

Abstract

Economic crises affecting different parts of the world have forced world leaders to seek new paths of development, taking into account the needs of environmental protection and prevention of adverse effects of human activities. One of these roads may be ”green growth” leading to the achievement of ”green economy”. Monitoring the state of green economy in Poland is possible due to certain indicators, among which is defined the group of measures relating to economic opportunities and policy responses. The aim of this article is to present the mentioned above group of indicators. The article is divided into two parts. The first one shows the theoretical issues relating to the green economy and indicators to measure it, with particular emphasis on the selected group. While the second is devoted to presenting the Polish situation in the background of other European Union countries in terms of the indicators of the economic opportunities and policy responses.

Assessment of the spatial disparities of the green economy in the voivodeships of Poland in 2010-2020

“…The implementation of these activities should be monitored to assess their effectiveness. Monitoring the green economy, as Wyszkowska (2016) points out, seems to be advisable. It allows for assessing the effectiveness of state policy in this area.…”