The idea of “green growth” has received international attention for more than a decade as a promising solution to a distinctly modern problem: a century of unparalleled increases in wealth based on equally unparalleled innovations in energy technology accompanied by global environmental threats such as climate change and persistent socioeconomic inequality. The green growth premise is that this problem can be solved without surrendering continued economic growth by a redirection of human effort to invent green energy technology, green energy markets, and green energy choice. Proponents have argued that green‐energy based economic growth represents a paradigm shift bringing forth sustainable and equitable relations between environment, economy, and society. The paper reviews a decade of green energy growth strategies and practices. The Korean Green Growth Initiative (KGGI) is investigated as a case study of green energy growth operationalization. Korea’s experiment was widely hailed by international bodies such as The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) for its bold attempt at paradigm shift, with the hope that, if it succeeded, countries currently on the periphery of modern development would be able to overcome conditions of poverty, environmental degradation, and political dependency. But our analysis of the Korean case questions the idea and ideology of green energy growth, demonstrating instead that KGGI was quickly coopted by the paradigm it was supposed to supplant. In this respect, one contradiction in the strategy and practice of green energy growth has been its promise to change the trajectory of modern development without requiring serious changes in modern values and ideology.

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绿色增长的兴衰：韩国的能源部门实验及其可持续能源政策的教训

十多年来，“绿色增长”的想法作为解决一个明显的现代问题的有前途的解决方案已受到国际关注：一个世纪以来，财富的空前增长是基于同样无与伦比的能源技术创新以及气候变化等全球环境威胁造成的和持续的社会经济不平等。绿色增长的前提是，通过人类发明绿色能源技术，绿色能源市场和绿色能源选择的努力的重新定向，就可以解决这一问题而又不影响经济的持续增长。支持者认为，基于绿色能源的经济增长代表了范式转变，带来了环境，经济和社会之间的可持续和公平关系。本文回顾了绿色能源增长战略和实践的十年。韩国绿色增长计划（KGGI）作为绿色能源增长运营的案例研究进行了调查。经济合作与发展组织（OECD）和联合国经济与社会事务部（UNDESA）等国际机构对韩国的实验进行了广泛的赞扬，因为它大胆尝试了范式转换，希望如果成功，各国当前处于现代发展边缘的国家将能够克服贫困，环境恶化和政治依赖的条件。但是，我们对韩国案例的分析对绿色能源增长的思想和意识形态提出了质疑，相反地表明，KGGI很快就被应该取代的范式所接受。在这方面，