Title:
SUSTAINABILITY THOUGHT 179: CAN WE TRANSITION FROM THE ENVIRONMENTALLY DIRTY ECONOMY TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN ECONOMY WITH THE USE OF GREEN MARKETS? IF YES, WHY?

Authors:
Lucio Muñoz* ,Canada

Abstract:
There is an environmental pollution problem separating the environmentally dirty economy from the environmentally clean economy; and this is because the environmentally dirty economy operates through the use of environmental pollution production markets. Since 2012 Rio +20, the world has been using dwarf green markets to manage pollution generation; and this is because the dwarf green economy works through the use of environmental pollution management markets, markets that are apparently delinked from the idea of the need to transition as soon as possible from the environmentally dirty economy to the environmentally clean economy, a permanent climate change friendly move. Now imagine the world would have gone the way of environmental pollution reduction markets a la green markets instead of dwarf green markets since 2012 when facing environmental pollution, things could be different. And this raises the question: Can we transition from the environmentally dirty economy to the environmental clean economy with the use of green markets? If Yes, why? What are the implications of this? Among the goals of this paper is to provide answers to all those questions.