Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections. Dedicated to all you framing aficionados out there. Oil-funded tax breaks Abolish all inc...
By Lyda Fernanda Forero There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences. This consensus is reinforced by the human and environmental disasters (tragedies) that occur every year due to extreme climate events, such as the typhoons of growing intensity including Haiyan(2013) in the Philippines or the hurricanes that devastate Central America....
Aus Protest gegen den unverminderten Braunkohleabbau, der weiterhin Wälder und Dörfer verschlingt, findet dieses Jahr zum fünften Mal das Klimacamp Rheinland statt. Organisiert von einem Bündnis aus BUNDjugend NRW, ausgeCOhlt und zahlreichen Unterstützerorganisationen wird das diesjährige Camp wie bereits in 2010 am Tagebau Garzweiler veranstaltet. Während sich Anwohner_innen und lokale Bürge...
