Where: Belèm, Brazil
When: 12 to 16 November 2025
The journey to build the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30 reflects the mobilization of the various social and environmental movements in Brazil.
Since March 2023, organisations have come together to form a unified representation that reflects the country’s rich biomes and diverse voices.
Through meetings in Brasília and at COP28 in Dubai, they have worked to develop a political declaration and a set of guiding principles for the Summit, strengthening our commitment to a climate and social justice agenda that will shape the path toward COP30 in Brazil in 2025.
Since 2018, a coalition of grassroots environmental groups and progressive politicians in the United States have brought into the public debate the idea of a Green New Deal. The plan is inspired not only by Roosevelt’s New Deal, but also by the subsequent wartime mobilization in response to a large-scale threat. The difference is that this time around the threat is not represented by the Axis p...
Without trying to give definitions of growth or degrowth everybody knows anyway, I would like to emphasize that these phenomena were always subject to discussions. Even a non-economist knows that it is impossible to talk about growth without mentioning ideas like increases in production factors, industrialization or economic development. Any increase has to come to a [...]
The Stream towards Degrowth has begun to flow! Political, scientific and artistic institutions and initiatives as well as individuals are all part of the current of a growth-sceptic public. We started the stream on the 27th of November in Jena, Germany. Now we're looking forward to gathering reports, debates and points of views - in order to show the problems of the fixation on growth and to pr...
