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Video: 15 Minuten für Klimagerechtigkeit mit Tadzio Müller

26.05.2015

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnede6NvgIM 15 Minuten für Klimagerechtigkeit von Ecapio Der Politikwissenschaftler und Klimagerechtigkeitsaktivist Tadzio Müller erklärt hier aus der perspektive des globalen Nordens, wie sich Klimawandel und Klimapolitik auf globaler Ebene fair und gerecht gestalten lassen. Dabei geht er den folgenden Fragen nach: Welche Verantwortung tragen die Länder des globalen Nordens? Welche Ideen und Konzepte gibt es für die Menschen im Süden ein gutes Leben zu führen, ohne die Konsum- und Produktionsmuster des Nordens nachzuahmen? Und welche Rolle kommt in diesem Prozess der Politik und der Zivilgesellschaft zu? Tadzio Müller arbeitet bei der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Berlin

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Year end reflections on the Malmö degrowth conference 2018

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By: Clàudia Custòdio Martínez

The 6th International Degrowth Conference finished on Saturday, the 25th of August with a demonstration under the rain in the center of Malmö. Typical weather for the end of August in Sweden, and very welcomed after the past worryingly dry months. The subtitle 'Dialogues in Turbulent Times' would summarize the week quite well. The strangely hot summer experienced by all of us was frequently ...

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Degrowth is anything but a strategy to reduce the size of GDP

By: Giorgos Kallis

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...

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The decoupling debate: can economic growth really continue without emission increases?

By: Mark H Burton

By Mark Burton Most ecological economists argue that continued economic growth is incompatible with ecological safety. That is to say continued increases in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP and also Gross Value Added, GVA) cannot happen while reducing ecological impacts in general, and climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in particular. It isn’t a popular message, and is one that ...