replacing chemical fertilisers with organic alternatives for greener food production diversifying renewable energy sources to close the energy access gap integrating land use management with community forestry approaches and tackling urbanlevel climate change are among the actions which are also currently outlined in the crge as having great potential to achieve accelerated economic growth mitigate climate change and scale up development benefits the global financial crisis saw these concepts enter political debate and frame economic decisionmaking particularly when most g countries dedicated a significant proportion of their economic stimulus packages to green investments the idea was that stalled growth and unemployment could be kickstarted through investing in new green sectors such as lowcarbon energy transport buildings and other infrastructure others have viewed the idea as making changes in economic governance to tackle resource scarcities how can the energy transport agriculture water and other resource demands of economic growth best be met oecd