Continuing risk in the sectors most depletion of natural resources and pollution of the threatened by environmental environment will increase the scarcity of fresh water and degradation, such as agriculture, fertile land and accelerate climate change and the loss of forestry and fisheries. [...] Learning objectives of this module understand the rationale, in terms of employment, for a transition to greener economies; learn the nature and scale of the major structural transformation, macro-economic and labour market implications of the greening of economies; understand the importance of quantitative assessment prior to, in the process of, and following the formulation and implementat. [...] Focus on both the long term and the short term: Broaden the focus of policy reforms, incentives, subsidies and market regulations from short-term stability to long-term resilience to address the real horizons of most sustainability challenges and to align financial markets and the real economy with the long-term interests of humanity. [...] 22 Module 1: Introduction Fiscal policy for the green economy seeks to ensure that environmental externalities, such as air and water Fiscal policy for the green economy pollution, congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, are seeks to ensure that environmental included in the prices of goods in order to reflect the cost externalities are included in the in terms of environmental damage and human h. [...] Overall, the extent of the creation of “green and decent jobs” in a country can be seen as an indicator of The more that jobs are “green and competitiveness: The higher it is, the better poised the decent” jobs, the better poised a country is to compete in a foreseeable future in which country is to compete in the green economies are designed to produce wealth and income economies of the foreseeab.