Side Event at the Rio+20 Conference
                
             
            Sustainable Development: Do we need a green industrial policy?
                
            
            
                Rio de Janeiro, 17. Juni 2012
            
            
                Industrial policy has made a forceful comeback. The global economic and financial crisis demanded swift action by governments to support and restructure productive activities, and industry in particular, in order to protect employment. At the same time global challenges such as climate change cannot be addressed without decisive policy…