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Podcast: The Climate Question
Episode: Is there a greener way to rank successful economies?
Description: Many blame our obsession with economic growth as being one of the biggest drivers of climate change. The United Nations is currently looking at options for what might replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the world’s primary go-to indicator of success, taking into account factors including sustainability and the natural environment. If this happens, it would be the biggest shift in how economies are measured since nations first started using GDP in 1953, 70 years ago.Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Ehsan Masood, author, science journalist and an editor at the journal, Nature;
Diane Coyle, economist and Be...