Digitalisierung wird eine wichtige Rolle in ökonomischen und politischen Entwicklungen einnehmen. Aus diesem Grund sollten sich soziale Bewegungen mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen und in die gesellschaftliche Debatte einbringen. Steffen Lange sieht vor allem fünf Bereiche, in denen sich Themen der Degrowth-Bewegung und der Digitalisierungsdebatte überschneiden: 1. Wachstum und Entkopplung, 2. di...
Another UN climate summit is over and despite the prevalent rhetoric of hope, the gap between the 1,5 or 2 degree target agreed in Paris last year and the real commitments to achieve this target is nowhere near to closing. Worse, this gap hasn't even been a focus of this year's UN climate talks in Marrakesh although time is running: Recently published analyses of this emission gap warn that the...
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...