Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
While agreeing with many points of van den Bergh's excellent review of the growth versus climate debate, I would like to point to a fundamental misrepresentation of the quoted research on degrowth: degrowth is not a strategy "aimed at reducing the size of the GDP". In fact, the degrowth proposition is that the relationship between fossil fuels/carbon emissions and GDP growth is mutual, and th...
The fifth international Degrowth Conference is over, the call to host the sixth has been opened. A lot could be said about the conference, yet I do not intend to give a comprehensive overview, nor examine how it stands in relation with the former conferences. Instead, I want to share five aspects of the conference, which I found particularly insightful. 1. A Degrowth Conference in Hungary? ...
Interview mit Anna Holthaus Anna Holthaus ist Vorstandsmitglied der BUNDJugend. Seit 4 Jahren engagiert sie sich in der BUNDJugend dafür, die Schritte für einen sozial-ökologischen Transformationsprozess und eine Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum anzusteuern. Erfreulicherweise ist die BUNDJugend ein wichtiger Unterstützer der Degrowth-Konferenz in Leipzig. Im Rahmen der Interviewreihe des Projekts “Stream towards Degrowth” blickt Anna Holthaus aus [...]
