http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tuned in!
At the COP24 conference in Poland, countries are aiming to finalise the implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. The task has extra gravity in the wake of the recent IPCC report declaring that we have just 12 years to take the action needed to limit global warming to that infamous 1.5ᵒC target. Although the conference itself is open to selected state representatives only, many see t...
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
Interview mit Reinhard Loske Prof. Dr. Reinhard Loske ist Professor für Nachhaltigkeit und Transformationsdynamik an der Universität Witten/Herdecke. Er war von 1998 bis 2007 Mitglied des Bundestages für die Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen und von 2007 bis 2011 Senator für Umwelt, Bau, Verkehr und Europa der Stadt Bremen. Sein Artikel "Ist ohne Wachstum wirklich alles nichts?" in der Frankfurte...
