The connection between "green" investing and economic welfare has been studied for over two decades.  With the global economic downturn and corresponding governmental stimulus responses, the importance of understanding this connection is greater than ever.  Sustainable energy investments are set to figure heavily in many spending packages around the world.  

Below is a collection of some of the most significant current research on the Green Economy:

2010

World Bank

• “Green Stimulus,” Economic Recovery, and Long-Term Sustainable Development

 

2009

SEF Alliance

• Why Clean Energy Public Investment Makes Economic Sense - the Evidence Base

Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (September 2009)

• Working for the Climate: Renewable Energy and the Green Job (R)evolution

Center For American Progress (June 2009)

•  The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy

Impetus Consulting Ltd report for Greenpeace (March 2009)

• The Case For Including Energy Efficiency Investment in the Fiscal Stimulus Package

United Nations Environment Programme (March 2009)

• A Global Green New Deal Policy Brief

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (March 2009)

• Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources

 European Renewable Energies Foundation (February 2009)

• Economic Crisis, Rescue Packages in EU 27 and Renewable Energy

HSBC Global Research (February 2009)

• A Climate for Recovery

Institut Français des Relations Internationales (February 2009)

• Investing in the Energy Sector: An Issue of Governance

United Nations Environment Programme (February 2009)

• A Global Green New Deal

BMU - German Ministry for Environment (January 2009)

• Umweltwirtschaftsbericht 2009

BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE (2009)

• How to Revitalise America's Middle Class with the Clean Energy Economy

Worldwatch and Heinrich Böll (2009)

• Towards a Transatlantic Green New Deal

2008

Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserschaft-Forschung (November 2008)

• Evaluierung der KfW-Förderung für Erneuerbare Energien im Inland in 2007 (Evaluation of KfW Support for Renewable Energies in Germany in 2007; German only)

Deutsche Bank (October 2008)

• Investing in Climate Change 2009

Global Insight, Inc. (October 2008)

• Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy

Apollo Alliance (September 2008)

• The New Apollo Program: Clean Energy, Good Jobs

Center for American Progress (September 2008)

• Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

United Nations Environment Programme (September 2008)

• Green Jobs: Toward decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon world

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (May 2008)

• The Size of the U.S. Energy Efficiency Market: Generating a More Complete Picture

Bremer Energie Institut (May 2008)

• Effekte des CO-Gebäudesanierungsprogrammes 2007 (Effect of CO-Building Renovations 2007, German only)

Apollo Alliance (2008)

• Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities

 

2007

American Solar Energy Society & Management Information Services Inc. (2007)

• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century

2006

BMU - German Ministry for Environment (June 2006)

• Renewable Energy: Employment Effects