Even increasing eco-efficiency will not compensate for the damage we are inflicting to the environment through population growth and excessive consumption.
While eco-efficiency aims to improve the effectiveness of material, energy, and land use, eco-sufficiency aims at reducing negative environmental consequences through a reduction of the demand for consumer goods.
This further implies that the more green growth based on the principle of eco-efficiency is successfully pursued, the more environmental pollution it generates.
Anything less tends to be about eco-efficiency, incrementalism or in the case of social impacts, philanthropy -- nothing wrong with any of that, mind you, just not the same as sustainability.
First, incremental eco-efficiency, which specifies the effects of the total value of a product system or sector and its total concomitant environmental effects.
