Yet, even where they have made progress, as in some of the ‘glimpses of a green economy’ we laid out in section 3, there is no systematic attempt to catalogue them, learn from them and then improve the enabling conditions for scaling up successful approaches. This might explain why the CRGE emphasises new initiatives and foreign technologies, rather than scaling up what already works in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, as in most countries, there is a realisation that restricted monitoring of poverty (against narrow criteria of cash income and food basket cost) is inadequate; as is restricted monitoring of environmental conditions (which rarely addresses aspects that matter to poor groups) -but action towards this is limited. Finally, with relevant data in short supply, accountability for the CRGE is inevitably constrained. In section 1, we outlined how prevailing economic signals within the Ethiopian economy often cause businesses and individuals to degrade the environment - or at least not to invest in cleaner approaches.