The report links the world body's goals of reducing poverty and inequality to promoting the use of wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy to run the economies of nations rich and poor.

To do that, the panel urges that nations fully integrate the social and environmental costs of their commerce into the prices and measures of their economic goods and services. They also call for the creation of a global education fund, improvements in human rights and more programs to empower women - all with the aim of overhauling economies.

The report says governments and international organisations ``should work to create a new green revolution - an ever-green revolution - for the 21st century'' by spending more on agricultural research, protecting imperiled plant and animal species, conserving land and water and fighting pollution. It also encourages the creation of regional oceans and coastal management bodies that protect world fisheries supplying 170 million jobs and daily protein for about one in five people on the planet.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created the 22-member, high-level panel in August 2010 to focus on one of his top priorities by providing the UN Conference on Sustainable Development with a roadmap for its meeting in June in Rio de Janeiro.

Other panel members include top officials from the US, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and other former world leaders.