From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
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...
Von Tadzio Müller Im Vorfeld der letzten UN Klimakonferenz in Lima, Peru, machte immer wieder eine Schlagzeile die Runde: der Versuch, ein bestimmtes Ideologem im Bewusstsein der globalen Eliten und auch der breiteren Bevölkerung zu verankern: „Leute“, hieß es, „Ihr habt recht, Euch um den Klimawandel zu sorgen, aber, nach Berichten des Internationalen Währungsfonds und einem neuen Report zum ...
