NERI reviewed and quality assured the report "Greening the Economy: Nordic experience and challenges ("Synthesis Report")" prepared by Vista Analyse AS for the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report provides a brief history of Nordic environmental policy develpments; analyses the usage of new economic instruments in the 2000s; assesses the Nordic environmental policy experience; analyses cases of innovation in green technologies and provides lessons and recommendations in how to use economic instruments while allowing for high economic growth.