By Mark Burton It can be difficult to form a view of what’s really going on in our atmosphere, given the amount of information and of contradictory claims. This piece concerns recent reports on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and levels. On 16th March, a Guardian headline over an article by John Vidal said: Surge in renewable energy stalls world greenhouse gas emissions That sounds good...
By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...
Die politische Debatte darüber, wie wir in der Zukunft anders leben und wirtschaften wollen, ist nach dem Abschluss der Enquete-Kommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“ im Bundestag weitgehend eingeschlafen. Außerhalb des Parlaments wird sie allerdings weiterhin lebendig geführt. Das wird auch die 4. Internationale Degrowth-Konferenz zeigen, die vom 2. bis 6. September 2014 in Leipzig Akteur/innen aus [...]
