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.
Contribution for a dialogue between Degrowth, Human Development and Buen Vivir Over the last 50 years, the mounting evidence of a civilizational or multidimensional crisis has progressively dislocated the (still dominant) industrialist and developmentalist discourse, setting out the imperative of a socio-ecological transition to overcome this crisis. In particular since the turn of the cent...
The fifth international Degrowth Conference is over, the call to host the sixth has been opened. A lot could be said about the conference, yet I do not intend to give a comprehensive overview, nor examine how it stands in relation with the former conferences. Instead, I want to share five aspects of the conference, which I found particularly insightful. 1. A Degrowth Conference in Hungary? ...
von Christiane Kliemann Mit der Sommerschule im Klimacamp im Rheinland werden zum ersten Mal die Themen Degrowth und Klimagerechtigkeit explizit zusammen gedacht. Das Eröffnungspodium ,,Keine Klimagerechtigkeit ohne Degrowth‟ hatte somit die Aufgabe, den großen Bogen zu schlagen und die Verbindungslinien zwischen Klimagerechtigkeit, Degrowth und dem Widerstand gegen fossile Energieträger zu zi...