Green growth indicators
Slovak Republic is one of the 34 signatories of the OECD Declaration on Green Growth, of 25th June 2009. By signing this declaration Slovakia acknowledged that the major challenges that all the countries face today include economic, environmental and social issues. Slovakia thus manifest the ambition to implement the Green Growth Strategy into its political system. In this perspective, Slovakia is also bound by a number of outcomes from the RIO+ Summit and other conceptual and strategic documents of the EU, OECD, and UN.
Hence, in order to successfully implement green initiatives, periodic monitoring and assessment of the efficiency of implemented instruments and measures are necessary. Outcomes of monitoring should serve the general public as well as the politicians in making decisions about further directions and implemented strategies.
Selected indicators characterize Slovakia's initial position as seen from the perspective of the green growth and were to be used as a measuring tool before further steps are taken in the process of implementation of this strategy and for a complex assessment of the future trend of the Slovak economy.
Present set of green growth indicators comprises 32 individual indicators that are relevant in Slovakia's conditions. Four of them are national indicators that describe voluntary instruments of the environmental strategy.