Green Productivity is a new paradigm in sustainable manufacturing where resource conservation and waste minimization constitute the strategy

in simultaneously enhancing environmental performance and productivity approach to the sustainability of industries requires the adoption of clean production technology and the development of appropriate indicators and instruments to measure environmental performance in a continuous improvement strategy that focuses on the manufacturing stage of the product life cycle. The analysis may be expanded to include the entire life cycle with increasing details on impacts, improvement strategies and indicators. Green productivity is the well-rounded socio-economic development that emphasizes on sustainable improvement in the quality of human life with minimum or no damage to the environment. It is the combined application of appropriate productivity and environmental impact of an organizations activities, products and services while enhancing profitability and competitive advantage. The thrust of the productivity week is to focus on generating awareness on the eco-efficiency considerations and energy efficiency perspective, which will be supported by principles of ecological economics and impinged by equations of eco-financing and investments and return cycles. Strategic action by firms and stakeholders including consumers are increasingly focused on eco-design initiatives including product improvement, product redesign. The aim is to explore future scope in harvesting green consumerism and green growth dynamics and emergence of eco-cities and eco-industrial parks that would foster an eco-culture across boundaries on our planet.

Green productivity as principle and strategy has gained wider understanding, stronger support eventually being applied for enhancing productivity and environmental performance for sustainable socioeconomic development.