Is there a greener way to rank successful economies?

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 Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the
University of Cambridge; Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor
at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University;
Fouty-Boulanga Mouleka, on-the-ground reporter in Gabon


Producer: Ben Cooper Researchers: Matt Toulson, Pierre-Antoine
Denis, Bethan Ashmead-Latham and Laura Cain Series Producer: Alex
Lewis Editor: China Collins Sound engineer: Tom Brignell
Production Coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill