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By: Attac working groups EKU&JdW

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Climate and Energy.

By: Kevin Buckland

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Climate and Energy.

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Climate and Energy at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > Energy consulting would lead to efficiency gains (free of charge or financed solidarily) > Efficiency contracting by cooperations Vision > Regional democratic decision on production/distribution > Free basic energy according t...

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of 4...

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of 4...

By: Frederike Neuber, Barbara Muraca

viable technologies; conviviality; Climate Engineering; climate change;

By: Vincent Moreau, Frédéric Meylan, Suren Erkman

Abstract: Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activities have accumulated in the atmosphere in excess of 880 gigatons (Gt) since preindustrial times. The conventional approaches to climate change, market based mechanisms, energy efficiency or technology have proved less efficient than recent economic downturns at curbing the emission rate. We propose to account for the atmospheric stock as...

By: Olli Tammilehto

Abstract: According to many studies greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a person or to a household increase with growing income. On the global level, a well-paid quarter of the population generates around three quarters of the total carbon dioxide emissions. The suffering from the disastrous effects of climate change, on the other hand, is distributed in the opposite direction. The conditi...

By: Sören Köpke

Abstract: Climate change is increasingly framed as a security concern. Proponents of the environmental security discourse warn that dwindling water resources, loss of arable land and grazing grounds will cause hunger and conflict. These resource-related conflicts will arise in the most vulnerable parts of the Global South. However, this discourse is blind to the political economy of a growth-ba...

By: Ida Andrea Braathen Sognnaes

Abstract: Global climate change brings up fundamental questions related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity. Economists have traditionally drawn a sharp distinction between efficiency and equity, but more recent studies in ecological economics have argued that the two are intimately linked (Corbera, Brown, & Adger, 2007; Howarth & Norgaard, 1992; Muradian, Corbera, Pascual...

By: Constanze Weiske

Abstract: Global climate change is the most pressing environmental issue the world society has to tackle in this day and age. Although the international Framework Convention on Climage Change (UNFCCC) has been established in 1992 in order to mitigate climate change, substantial progress is not made yet. In order to identify the reasons for that unsatisfactory situation, researchers has mainly c...

By: Manuel Linsenmeier, Jobst Heitzig

Abstract: In this work we use conceptual mathematical models to explore the role of feedbacks in the coupled climate-economy system under different economic scenarios. We combine different representations of the climate-economy feedback with three scenarios for the global economy: unconstrained background economic growth with slow decoupling of economic production from carbon emissions, economi...

By: Bruno Kern

By: Dominic Egger

Non-market food provision - Transitory strategy - Food waste - Degrowth practice - Municipal strategy of climate change mitigation

By: Felix Ekardt

Abstract: By examining the problem of climate change this paper develops a substantial critique of the background assumptions that not only the formulation of economic theories but, in parts, also that of sociological/ political theories base on. However, this approach does not “supplement” to efficiency considerations” which up to now dominate the practical debate; it rather supersedes them. I...

By: Simone D'Alessandro

Abstract: The repeated failures of global agreements for GHG emissions abatement call for a new strategy that involves local communities in implementing effective transitions to sustainability (the Warsaw Climate Change Conference in November 2013 is the last example). This paper investigates the environmental, social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP) at the lo...

By: Carlo Aall

Rebound effects, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, tourism

By: Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

climate change, degrowth, GDP paradox, green growth, growth debate, macro indicators

By: Ugo Bardi

Mehr als 40 Jahre nach dem Bericht „Die Grenzen des Wachstums“ stellte der Club of Rome nun seinen neuen Bericht vor: „Der geplünderte Planet“. Autor Ugo Bardi erläutert im Kontext-TV-Interview, welche Folgen der Raubbau an der Erde hat und warum es in den kommenden Jahrzehnten zu Ressourcen-Knappheiten kommen wird. Neben Öl könnte es auch bei Uran und Kupfer bald zu Engpässen kommen. Noch grav...

By: Martin Eiermann

Aus der Reihe "Themenblätter im Unterricht" (Nr. 96) Mäßig erfolgreiche Klimakonferenzen und Emissionshandel können schnell den Eindruck erwecken, beim Klimawandel handle es sich um ein abstraktes Problem, das nur Politiker etwas angeht. Realität ist jedoch, dass die Folgen der weltweiten Klimaveränderungen schon jetzt für jedermann spürbar sind – und die Zukunftsprognosen düster aussehen. D...