Roads from Rio+20: Prof. Mark Swilling

In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012, Professor Maarten Hajer (director of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) talked to an international group of people on the worldwide search for effective ways to solve sustainability challenges.

Here, Professor Mark Swilling (Stellenbosch University) explains the African scepticism on the notion of a Green Economy. Will this be a mask for the transfer of developed world technology into the developing world or a fundamental structural transformation of the economical system?