Green growth and green economy – theoretical basis, starting points and new challenges

The need to maintain economic growth and development is, in the current conditions, coupled with the need to maintain a quality environment and quality of life. Individual economies are transforming their production and consumption patterns towards a circular economy, carbon neutrality and the elimination of the negative impacts of climate change, with the aim of conserving resources, in the light of the principles of sustainable development. In this paper we focus on the green growth and the green economy, as a current and the preferred concepts on the road to sustainability. The main objective of this paper is to review the theoretical approaches to the concepts of green growth and green economy. To achieve the main objective, an analysis of documents and sources declaring different approaches and ways to presenting the green growth and green economy was used. This article presents views on the common points of convergence, divergence and directions of development of green concepts, using the literature sources.