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Scientific paper • 2014

Rewarding with a licence to commit ecocide: High incomes and climate change

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...

Presentation • 2014

Keynote speeches - Building alliances

By: Adelheid Biesecker, Sunita Narain

Recorded keynote speeches at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speeches by Adelheid Biesecker and Sunita Narain. The topic of the day is "Building alliances". Adelheid Biesecker: (Re)Productivity as an economic paradigm for a social-ecological economy Modern capitalist economy systematically destroys the productivity...

Presentation • 2014

Climate Justice and Degrowth: commonalities, resistances and alternatives

By: Nnimmo Bassey, Tadzio Müller, Lucia Ortiz, Lyda Fernanda

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Tadzio Müller, Nnimmo Bassey, Lucia Ortiz Facilitation: Lyda Fernanda From the conference programme: The question of global justice is frequently underplayed or even omitted in the debate about the relationship between the climate crisis and economic...

Presentation • 2014

The new economy of nature – tendencies of valuation and financialization

By: Camila Moreno, Alexandra Strickner, Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Bernd Hansjürgens, Barbara Unmüßig, Camila Moreno Facilitation: Alexandra Strickner From the conference programme: Different strategies have been developed to address the “multiple crises”. One of them is the intensified financialization of nature:...

Presentation • 2014

A worldwide energy revolution?

By: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale, Nina Netzer

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale Facilitation: Nina Netzer From the conference programme: The extensive use of dirty energy sources causes severe environmental and social damages while 2,7 billion people have no access to modern energy...

Interview • 2014

Battle for the Climate: «It's not about parts per million, it's about power.»

By: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Video from the international Conference "Battle for the Climate" (Kampf ums Klima) which took place 10.-12. April 2015 in Cologne. Speakers and participants of the conference are giving statements. Main topic is climate justice.

Scientific paper • 2013

Are the Central East European Countries Pollution Havens?

By: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Martina Vidovic, Anca M. Voicu

Pollution Haven Hypothesis, Porter hypothesis, European Union, Trade Flows

Report • 2012

Kritik der grünen Ökonomie - Impulse für eine sozial und ökologisch gerechte Zukunft

By: Wolfgang Sachs, Barbara Unmüßig, Thomas Fatheuer

HBS: Die erste UN-Konferenz zu Umwelt und Entwicklung, die 1992 in Rio de Janeiro stattfand, galt einst als umweltpolitischer Meilenstein. Doch eine echte Trendumkehr für eine soziale und ökologisch tragfähige Zukunft hat sie nicht eingeleitet. Seither haben sich alle wichtigen globalen ökologischen Trends zum Schlechteren und nicht zum Besseren gewendet. Politik und Wirtschaft lassen sich bis...

Scientific paper • 2012

The risk perception regarding a gold mining project in Romania

By: Cosmina-Maria Berindei

Abstract: This paper aims to present the results of an anthropological research regarding the risk perception in the case of the Roșia Montana gold mining project. The methods that were used are specific in the qualitative research and were aimed at the most controversial project of post-communist Romania. The scope of the project is to exploit the gold in open mining using the cyanide in the...

Misc • 2012

Energiekämpfe

By: Olaf Bernau, Alberto Acosta, Tadzio Müller, Christa Wichterich, Dieter Klein, Michael T. Klare, Marcel Hänggi, Uwe Witt, Ewa Charkiewicz, Lucio Cuenca Berger, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Ercan Ayboga, Ursula Schönberger, Hannah Schuster, Selana Tzschiesche, Michelle Wenderlich, Sokari Ekine, Uli Brand, Jörn Krüger, Hardy Feldmann, Dagmar Enkelmann, Luismi Uharte, Bodo Ramelow, Andrea Ypsilanti, Rainer Land, Mario Neukirch, Jan Latza, Peter Schmidt, The Free Association

Zeitschrift «Luxemburg» 01/2012 Die ausgerufene „Energiewende“ setzt auf Grünen Kapitalismus. Wie die Dampf- und Webmaschinen für den Beginn der industriellen Revolution standen, wie Taylorisierung und Fließband die technische Basis für den Fordismus und die IT-Revolution für die Globalisierung bereitstellte, soll die globale Energiewende die Grundlage für einen ökologischen Umbau der...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Valley that accepts to drown but not to die – Environmental and social (in)justice along the Narmada River (Central India)

By: Daniela Del Bene

From the text: This paper is being written as a non-violent struggle is occuring in the Narmada Valley in Central India, where hundreds of villages face the threat of being flooded by the reservoir waters of the Omkareshwar Dam. More than 10 activists have been staying in the Narmada waters over the past ten days with water up to their necks. They are shouting slogans like “We will fight, we...

Scientific paper • 2012

A European Citizens’ Initiative for implementation of The human right to water and sanitation in European law.

By: Jerry van den Berge

Summary: The United Nations have recognised the universal human right to water and sanitation on 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292. In this resolution the UN acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are key factors to the accomplishment of all human rights. The Resolution calls upon States and international organisations to provide financial resources, help in...

Misc • 2011

Ausgewachsen!

By: Werner Rätz, Matthias Schmelzer, Barbara Muraca, Tanja von Egan-Krieger, Alexis Passadakis, Andrea Vetter (Hrsg.)

Ökologische Gerechtigkeit. Soziale Rechte. Gutes Leben. Reader zum Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums!?"

Presentation • 2011

Our planet is threatened by a wrong belief in a wrongly formulated growth

By: Roefie Hueting

attac: Introductory Course by Roefie Hueting. Environmental functions are defined as the possible uses of the non-human-made physical surroundings. Environmental sustainability is defined as a dynamic equilibrium by which vital environmental functions remain available for future generations. Environmentally sustainable national income (eSNI) is defined as the maximum attainable production...

Report • 2011

Globaler Klimaschutz: Klappe, die Siebzehnte

By: Tadzio Müller

Von der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen (Versagens). Standpunkte 39/2011 von Tadzio Müller Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Im südafrikanischen Durban trifft sich vom 28. November bis zum 10. Dezember zum 17. Mal die Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention, kurz als COP17 bezeichnet. Selbstgesetztes Ziel des Gipfels ist es, den globalen Klimaschutz auch nach dem Ende der ersten Phase des...

Misc • 2010

Großer Fuß auf kleiner Erde? - Bilanzieren mit dem Ecological Footprint

By: Bert Beyers, Barbara Kus, Thora Amend, Andrea Fleischhauer

Wo wir auch wohnen, auf dem Dorf oder mitten in der Großstadt: Die Bereitstellung von Lebensmitteln, Kleidung, Energie oder Baumaterial für Häuser und Schulen – unser gesamtes Leben hängt von der Versorgung durch die Ökosysteme des Planeten Erde ab. Der Ecological Footprint ist ein Messinstrument für dieses Naturkapital. Er zeigt, dass wir die Ressourcen für unseren Lebensunterhalt deutlich...

Presentation • 2010

Class, Degrowth and Transition to Just and Sustainable Society

By: Marko Ulvila, Jarna Pasanen

Transcription of an poster session by Marko Ulvila and Jarna Pasanen at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Class, Degrowth and Transition to Just and Sustainable Society".

Presentation • 2010

Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?

By: Francesca Chianese, Jampel Dell’Angelo

Poster and Transcription of an poster session by Francesca Chianese and Jampel Dell’Angelo at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?".

Presentation • 2010

Who should pay for climate? Emissions, resources and technological transfers in a two-economy model

By: Emanuele Campiglio

Transcription of an poster session by Emanuele Campiglio at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Who should pay for climate? Emissions, resources and technological transfers in a two-economy model".

Presentation • 2010

Degrowth – What Can We Learn from Cuba?

By: Karen Bell

Poster by Karen Bell at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Degrowth – What Can We Learn from Cuba?".