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Misc • 2018

Degrowth: Zeit, die Welt zu verändern

Dieselskandal, Klimawandel, Artensterben. Wer tut etwas dagegen? Keiner. Christiane Kliemann will das nicht länger mitmachen. Sie kündigte bei den UN und lebt vor, wie der Verlust von Luxus ein Gewinn sein kann.

Misc • 2018

movum - Heft 20: Kohleausstieg

By: Peter Hennicke, Damian Ludewig, Ottmar Edenhofer, , Susanne Götze, Jörg Staude, Susanne Schwarz, Svenja Schulze, Michael Vassiliadis, Jennifer Morgan, Christoph Zöpel, Manfred Fischedick, Patrick Graichen, Friederike Maier, Joachim Wille

Heft 20 des Magazins movum zum Thema Kohleausstieg. Kurzbeschreibung: Die Politik hat sich jahrelang vor der Auseinandersetzung um den notwendigen Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung gedrückt. Jetzt muss es schnell gehen. Das Heft als PDF Die Infografik als PDF

Scientific paper • 2018

Degrowth in city planning

By: Ari Aukusti Lehtinen

This paper summarises the key arguments of degrowth thinking and examines their validity in a city planning setting. The paper argues that much of the reorientation work that is necessary to meet the goals of international climate change conventions needs to be carried out locally, in urban and regional settings, and this creates pressure to renew land-use planning practices. It also argues...

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Trade & Environment

By: Fritz Hinterberger, Olivier de Schutter, Patrizia Heidegger, Luisa Santos

Chair: Kathleen Van Brempt, MEP (S&D) Panellists: Fritz Hinterberger (Founding President of Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI)), Olivier de Schutter (Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at SciencesPo (Paris), former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (2008-2014)), Patrizia Heidegger (Global Policies Director at the EEB), Luisa Santos (Business...

Scientific paper • 2017

Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society

By: Ernest Garcia, Peadar Kirby, Samuel Alexander, Joaquim Sempere, Alain Gras, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias, John Wiseman, Rebecca Bramall, Jorge Riechmann, Laurence Raineau, Climent Sanjuán, Ignasi Lerma Montero, Jesús Vicens

Subtitle: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing Editors: Ernest Garcia, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias, Peadar Kirby From the introduction: . . . This stark choice confronts humanity with what is perhaps the greatest dilemma it has ever faced in its history: can we try to mobilize our resources in the most unprecedented ways over a short time span of no more than half a century to avoid the worst of...

Misc • 2017

No degrowth without climate justice

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Teaser: Changing structures, opposing hierarchies, and embracing the struggle as lessons for the degrowth community From the blog post: Since the 2014 Leipzig Degrowth Conference, the argument that climate justice cannot exist without degrowth has repeatedly been made. In a keynote at the Degrowth conference in Budapest, in September 2016, I developed this line of thinking further and argued...

Scientific paper • 2017

A third option for climate policy within potential limits to growth

By: Jeroen van den Bergh

Abstract: Climate change has revived debates around the concept of limits to growth, 45 years after it was first proposed. Many citizens, scientists and politicians fear that stringent climate policy will harm economic growth. Some are anti-growth, whereas others believe green growth is compatible with a transition to a low-carbon economy. As the window to curb warming at 2 °C closes, this...

Scientific paper • 2017

Two Contrasting Scenarios for a Zero-Emission Future in a High-Consumption Society

By: Carlo Aall, Jin Xue, Hans Jakob Walnum, Petter Næss

Keywords: ecological modernisation; degrowth; zero-emission society; scenario

Scientific paper • 2017

The unit of resilience: unbeckoned degrowth and the politics of (post)development in Peru and the Maldives

By: Eric Hirsch

Keywords: resilience, degrowth, climate change, Peru, Maldives

Scientific paper • 2017

Viable and convivial technologies. Considerations on Climate Engineering from a degrowth perspective

By: Frederike Neuber, Barbara Muraca

Keywords: Degrowth; Viable technologies; Conviviality; Climate Engineering; Argumentative turn

Report • 2017

Zero Carbon Britain: Making it Happen

By: Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)

CAT about the report: The UN Paris Agreement states that humanity must reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century. This is a big shift, but we have no option other than to succeed if we are to avoid really dangerous climate change. Previous Zero Carbon Britain research from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has shown that we can meet this challenge using...

Misc • 2017

Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual

By: Jeremy Brecher

From the publisher: Before the election of Donald Trump the world was already speeding toward climate catastrophe. Now President Trump has jammed his foot on the global warming accelerator. Is there any way for the rest of us to put on the brakes? Climate insurgency is a strategy for using people power to realize our common interest in protecting the climate. It uses mass, global, nonviolent...

Scientific paper • 2017

Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Chapter in the "Handbook on Growth and Sustainability" Edited by Peter A. Victor and Brett Dolter About the book: This Handbook assembles original contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees and Tim Jackson who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. The Handbook also...

Interview • 2017

Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

By: Kate Aronoff, Kevin Anderson

"Bonn — This week, world leaders are convening along a sleepy stretch of Germany’s Rhine River for COP23, the first UN climate talks to be held since Trump announced he will withdraw United States from the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate deal arrived at in 2015. Yet while the administration’s fossil-fuel boosterism has grabbed headlines about COP23 stateside, the UNFCCC process has more...

Misc • 2017

Why less is more - There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy

By: Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel argues in an articel that Degrowth is the only chance to avoid catastrophic climate change

Misc • 2017

The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth

By: Jason Hickel

Introduction: When Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate deal, the world reacted with outrage. And rightly so: the agreement represents a remarkable achievement in international diplomacy – a breakthrough after 20 years of failed climate negotiations. But as we rally to defend the Paris deal against the onslaught of an ill-informed bully, we need to resist the...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth, Commons and Climate Justice: Ecofeminist Insights and Indigenous Political Traditions

By: Patricia E. Perkins

<strong>Keywords:</strong> climate justice, community resilience, community development, climate risk reduction, extreme weather events, social capital, participatory governance, ecological economics, political ecology, ecofeminism, social learning, subsistence, resource governance, degrowth

Interview • 2017

Was der Wahlkampf verschweigt: Die Autoindustrie und der Weg ins Klimachaos

By: Fabian Scheidler, Winfried Wolf

Your browser does not support the video tag. Einleitung: Trotz Rekordfluten wie jüngst in Houston und extremer Dürre in vielen Teilen der Welt, von Italien bis Somalia, ist der Klimawandel im Bundestagswahlkampf kein Thema. In Deutschland steigen die Treibhausgasmissionen seit 2015 wieder, statt zu sinken, vor allem durch den boomenden Auto-, LKW- und Flugverkehr. Doch selbst bei den Debatten...

Misc • 2017

Wir Schlafwandler: G-20 Fieberträume, Klimaretter-Halluzinationen und der allzu reale Crashkurs

By: David Goeßmann

Einleitung Ein finsterer Wolfskopf fletscht die Zähne. Im Maul hält er knurrend die Weltkugel wie einen Spielball. Eine weiße Hand im Stile Michelangelos streckt sich nach der bedrohten Erde aus. Daneben stehen die mahnenden Worte: „Globalisierung außer Kontrolle. TRAUT EUCH! Radikal denken, entschlossen handeln – nur so ist die Welt noch zu retten.“ Das ist kein Plakat „linker Randalierer“,...

Misc • 2017

Degrowth: Unterschiedliche Strategien, dieselben Kämpfe

By: Manfred Ecker

Degrowth (im deutschen als Postwachstum bezeichnet) nennt sich das Konzept einer Strömung innerhalb der Klimaschutzbewegung, die das Wirtschaftswachstums in den Industrienationen zulasten der Umwelt und des globalen Südens angreift. Aus sozialistischer Sicht hat diese Theorie wichtige Stärken und Schwächen. (Einführung) Vierter und letzter Teil einer Serie. Alle Artikel aus der Serie: Teil 1:...