GREEN ECONOMY AS A DRIVER OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Changes in the environment, related to irrational use of natural resources and emission of carbon dioxide, accompanied by a large amount of waste that people leave behind, required a response by modern society, so a new economic paradigm was developed, called the green economy.
The green economy, as one of sustainable development goals, emits very little carbon dioxide, adequately exploits renewable energy sources and reduces the negative impact on the environment.
Sustainable development is a concept that is globally widespread today, and its main task is to provide a balance in the world through economic, social and environmental effects, with the ultimate goal to do good for humanity. Those three areas, economy, society and environment, are the concept of sustainable development, and the balance can only be achieved if all three areas are present. The sustainable development goals are universally applicable and interconnected, which means that achievement of one goal contributes to the achievement of all other goals to a greater or lesser extent.
The main goal of the paper is to point out the advantages of implementing the green economy in the environment as a function of sustainable development.