The climate crisis is a consequence of our economic system. Economic solutions, like carbon trading were supposed to be a problem solver. Despite such efforts, CO2 levels kept rising. Should we consider changing our economic system instead? And which role do environmental NGOs play in the battle for climate justice?
Joanna Cabello, activist and researcher on environmental justice and part of the Carbon Trade Watch collective, speaks about false solutions and grassroots activism. Joanna´s blog article "Where to begin with climate justice" is available here.
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
Von Anne Pinnow, Steffen Lange, Matthias Schmelzer und Nina Treu Vom 30. August bis 3. September hat die 5. Internationale Degrowth-Konferenz für soziale Gerechtigkeit und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit in Budapest stattgefunden. Das Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie war mit mehreren Mitarbeiter_innen vor Ort. In diesem Artikel möchten wir einige unserer Eindrücke schildern und eine Einschätzung unsererse...
By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
