Ecological modernisation in the form of support to the notion of green growth remains the dominant discourse in environmental policy globally. Still, questions of limits to economic expansion and growth on a planet with finite natural resources have been at the core of environmental discourses at least since the 1970's. A recent effort by Stoknes and Rockström (2018) seeks to unite notions of ecological limits with the concept of green growth by proposing genuine green growth as denoting a situation when growth respects planetary boundaries. Focusing on recent trajectories in emissions intensity, they highlight Nordic countries including Denmark as examples of such genuine green growth. In this article, we demonstrate that the specific conceptualization of genuine green growth and resulting claims about the Nordic countries rest on particular assumptions, specifically concerning national-level carbon accounting frameworks and the size of the remaining global carbon budget. By opening up these assumptions for analysis we illustrate the partiality and potentially misleading nature of the conceptualization of GGG.

支持绿色增长概念形式的生态现代化仍然是全球环境政策中的主要话题。尽管如此，至少自1970年代以来，在自然资源有限的星球上限制经济增长和增长的问题一直是环境讨论的核心。Stoknes andRockström（2018）最近的一项工作试图通过提出真正的绿色增长来表示生态增长的概念，即表示增长尊重行星边界的情况，从而将生态极限的概念与绿色增长的概念结合起来。他们着眼于近期的排放强度轨迹，重点介绍了包括丹麦在内的北欧国家，作为这种真正的绿色增长的例子。在本文中，我们证明，真正的绿色增长及其对北欧国家的主张的特定概念基于特定的假设，尤其是关于国家级碳核算框架和剩余全球碳预算规模的假设。通过打开这些假设进行分析，我们说明了GGG概念化的局部性和潜在的误导性质。