the service orientation will facilitate the transformation to a green economy in so far as there will be fewer practices such as chemical applications that are unfriendly to the natural environment the energy intensity of production will decline and information and communications technologies will be more easily applied to production there is now an official commitment in the longterm plan vision to move towards a green economy though it still is not the dominant thrust of the plan most important investment in activities that use green technologies such as wind and solar energy equipment and nonpetroleum fuelled transport is still marginal