Assessment of Complementarities between GGGI’s Green Growth Index and UNEP’s Green Economy Progress Index - GGGI Technical Report No. 10

This report assesses the complementarities between these two indices and discusses their main similarities and differences. It also presents the results from the global applications of both indices, including a detailed discussion of the results for two country case studies in Mexico and China, as well as the results for a common application of both methodologies for a selected number of common indicators and key parameters. This report is organized as follows: section 2 briefly introduces the analytical approach for the comparative assessment; section 3 focuses on the descriptive assessment and discusses the main similarities and differences between the GG and GEP concept and methods; section 4 focuses on empirical assessment and presents the results from the global applications of both indices as well as a detailed discussion of the results for two country case studies, Mexico and China, and the results for a common application of both methodologies for a selected number of common indicators and key parameters; and section 5 concludes the report.