At a meeting of the Grenada Sustainable Development Council,7 Grenada’s chief negotiator at the Rio+20 negotiations process while calling for greater national involvement stated, ‘It is not enough to simply accept what others will decide for us in the future we want’ (Sustainable Development Council [SDC] 2012). It was recognised that increases in the quality of life, poverty eradication and a more equitable distribution of wealth and income were important elements of the green economy conceptualisation. Recalling absorptive capacity and carrying capacity limitations on the national level, the call therefore was for more sustainable national-level production and consumption as the key factors in the green economy.