the public sector has a vital role to play in providing the environment and infrastructure which would enable and promote action by the private sector for example government has an important role to play in reforming fossil fuel subsidies or simply in helping to raise awareness of the costs and benefits of potential investment decisions this would result in a winwin situation with reduced costs for the private sector combined with the social benefits from improved energy efficiency the key drivers of green growth namely investment and innovation require the creation of enabling policy frameworks in which private sectorled and collaborative investment and innovation initiatives can thrive