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Interview • 2015

COP 21 in Paris: Der unmenschliche Klima-Deal

By: Nnimmo Bassey, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Müller, Themba Austin Chauke, Mariama Williams, Pablo Solón, Alice Bows-Larkin, Kevin Anderson, Tim Gore, Janet Redman, Juliette Rousseau, Bill McKibben

„Jeder, der den Klimagipfel als einen Erfolg bezeichnet, lebt in einer Phantasiewelt“, sagt Nicola Bullard, Aktivistin und Beobachterin der Verhandlungen in Paris. Die freiwilligen Emissionsreduzierungen werden selbst im besten Fall zu einer durchschnittlichen Erwärmung von drei bis vier Grad in diesem Jahrhundert führen - mit katastrophalen Folgen für große Teile der Menschheit. „Sie...

Presentation • 2015

Andy Mace ESEE2015 Plenary: Do we value sustainability? A design consultants view

By: Andy Mace

Plenary speech by Andy Mace: Plenary speech at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015. Practitioners Panel Q&A session with Ronan Palmer, Kate Raworth, Andy Mace and Paul Ellis

Misc • 2015

Die Klimagipfel-Truman-Show

By: David Goeßmann

Einleitung „Grüner wird’s nicht“ (Taz), „Für die Menschheit“ (SZ), das „Wunder von Paris“ oder „Historischer Weltklimavertrag“ (Spiegel Online) lauten die Schlagzeilen nach dem Klimadeal in Paris. Wir sahen in der Tagesschau einen mit den Tränen kämpfenden Laurent Fabius, französischer Außenminister und COP 21 Präsident, eine innerlich bewegte deutsche Umweltministerin oder einen jubelnden...

Misc • 2015

Klimagipfel in Paris: "Sie verbrennen den Planeten"

By: Fabian Scheidler, David Goeßmann

Einleitung: „Sie verbrennen den Planeten“: Mit diesen Worten resümiert der ehemalige bolivianische Klima-Chefunterhändler Pablo Solón das bisherige Ergebnis des Klimagipfels in Paris. Die derzeit vorliegenden Angebote zur Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen führen in eine Welt, die drei bis vier Grad wärmer wird – mit katastrophalen Folgen für große Teile der Weltbevölkerung. „Wir werden in eine...

Misc • 2015

Die gefährlichen Lügen von Paris

By: David Goeßmann

Einleitung: Die Anschläge in Paris sind ein Geschenk für eine Neuauflage des „War on Terror“. Die Auswirkungen und Reaktionen sind allzu bekannt: Bombardements und Vergeltungsschläge ohne Beachtung der Opfer und Nebeneffekte, Planung weiterer "militärischer Lösungen“, verschärfte Grenzkontrollen, Aushebelung von Bürgerrechten und Hochrüstung der Sicherheitsapparate. Anschläge vs....

Presentation • 2015

Naomi Klein: Kapitalismus versus Klima

By: Naomi Klein, Tadzio Müller, Luise Neumann-Cosel

Your browser does not support the video tag. Einleitung: Die kanadische Buchautorin Naomi Klein argumentiert in ihrer "Democracy Lecture 2015" in Berlin (veranstaltet von den "Blättern für deutsche und internationale Politik"), dass sich Klima und Kapitalismus auf Crashkurs befinden. Es sei "bad timing" gewesen, dass die Klimaerwärmung genau zu dem Zeitpunkt als gesellschaftliches Problem...

Scientific paper • 2015

Measuring rural–urban disparity with the Genuine Progress Indicator: A case study in Japan

By: Takashi Hayashi

Japan, often regarded as one of the world's most egalitarian societies, has faced increasing rural–urban disparity since the late 1980s. However, even if the wages and income levels of rural populations are lower than those of urban residents, some people will remain in the rural areas or, in some cases, return from the cities. These observations imply the necessity of measuring the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Investigating the potential of applying theories on rebound effects to the climate discourse: The case of climate change adaptation in winter tourism

By: Carlo Aall

Rebound effects, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, tourism

Scientific paper • 2014

The social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP)

By: Simone D'Alessandro

Abstract: The repeated failures of global agreements for GHG emissions abatement call for a new strategy that involves local communities in implementing effective transitions to sustainability (the Warsaw Climate Change Conference in November 2013 is the last example). This paper investigates the environmental, social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP) at the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Food sharing: A potential strategy against the food waste problem and a local contribution to local climate change mitigation?

By: Dominic Egger

Non-market food provision - Transitory strategy - Food waste - Degrowth practice - Municipal strategy of climate change mitigation

Scientific paper • 2014

The Limits to Environmental Economics

By: Felix Ekardt

Abstract: By examining the problem of climate change this paper develops a substantial critique of the background assumptions that not only the formulation of economic theories but, in parts, also that of sociological/ political theories base on. However, this approach does not “supplement” to efficiency considerations” which up to now dominate the practical debate; it rather supersedes them....

Scientific paper • 2014

"Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar"

By: Bruno Kern

Scientific paper • 2014

Let them Eat War: Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Conflict

By: Sören Köpke

Abstract: Climate change is increasingly framed as a security concern. Proponents of the environmental security discourse warn that dwindling water resources, loss of arable land and grazing grounds will cause hunger and conflict. These resource-related conflicts will arise in the most vulnerable parts of the Global South. However, this discourse is blind to the political economy of a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Climate-economy feedbacks under growth, low-growth, and no-growth scenarios

By: Manuel Linsenmeier, Jobst Heitzig

Abstract: In this work we use conceptual mathematical models to explore the role of feedbacks in the coupled climate-economy system under different economic scenarios. We combine different representations of the climate-economy feedback with three scenarios for the global economy: unconstrained background economic growth with slow decoupling of economic production from carbon emissions,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Next level carbon cycling, quantifying the carbon recycling potential

By: Vincent Moreau, Frédéric Meylan, Suren Erkman

Abstract: Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activities have accumulated in the atmosphere in excess of 880 gigatons (Gt) since preindustrial times. The conventional approaches to climate change, market based mechanisms, energy efficiency or technology have proved less efficient than recent economic downturns at curbing the emission rate. We propose to account for the atmospheric stock as...

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth and Climate Engineering

By: Frederike Neuber, Barbara Muraca

viable technologies; conviviality; Climate Engineering; climate change;

Scientific paper • 2014

Equity and emissions. How are household emissions distributed, what are their drivers and what are possible implications for future climate mitigation?

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of...

Scientific paper • 2014

The distribution and drivers of CO2 emissions on a consumption basis and implications for a degrowth economy – the case of Germany

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ethical implications of efficiency in climate economics

By: Ida Andrea Braathen Sognnaes

Abstract: Global climate change brings up fundamental questions related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity. Economists have traditionally drawn a sharp distinction between efficiency and equity, but more recent studies in ecological economics have argued that the two are intimately linked (Corbera, Brown, & Adger, 2007; Howarth & Norgaard, 1992; Muradian, Corbera,...

Scientific paper • 2014

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

By: Olli Tammilehto

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...