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Le lobbying en faveur du climat à l'échelle européenne, tel est la mission que s'est donnée Chloé Mikolajczak. Elle nous explique ce que cela signifie.
For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential Prosperity Without Growth, the world is both much changed – reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues – and maddeningly the same, still locked in a growth-driven destructive spiral. What does Jackson’s latest contribution, Post Growth, have to say about the way out of the dilemma?
The EU aims to be climate-neutral by 2050 – an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This objective is at the heart of the European Green Deal and in line with the EU’s commitment to global climate action under the Paris Agreement.
The EU is on track to meet its emissions reduction target for 2020 and has put in place legislation to achieve its 2030 climate and energy targets of reducing emissions by at least 40% by 2030. In her 2020 State of the Union speech, President von der Leyen announced the EU’s plan to raise its ambitions and reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030.
No one would deny that it is possible to make capitalism greener. Yet the proposal of eco-productivism remains short-sighted.
It is increasingly clear that averting ecological breakdown will require drastic changes to contemporary human society and the global economy embedded within it. On the other hand, the basic material needs of billions of people across the planet remain unmet. Here, we develop a simple, bottom-up model to estimate a practical minimal threshold for the final energy consumption required to provide decent material livings to the entire global population. We find that global final energy consumption in 2050 could be reduced to the levels of the 1960s, despite a population three times larger. However, such a world requires a massive rollout of advanced technologies across all sectors, as well as radical demand-side changes to reduce consumption – regardless of income – to levels of sufficiency. Sufficiency is, however, far more materially generous in our model than what those opposed to strong reductions in consumption often assume.
Tradable Energy Quotas rationfossil fuel energy use for nations by either a contracting carbon emission budget or scarce fuel availability
We need to talk about decoupling. The term ‘decoupling’ refers to the possibility of detaching economic growth from environmental pressures.
A doughnut cooked up in Oxford will guide Amsterdam out of the economic mess left by the coronavirus pandemic.
While straining to keep citizens safe in the Dutch capital, municipality officials and the British economist Kate Raworth from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute have also been plotting how the city will rebuild in a post-Covid-19 world.
The conclusion? Out with the global attachment to economic growth and laws of supply and demand, and in with the so-called doughnut model devised by Raworth as a guide to what it means for countries, cities and people to thrive in balance with the planet.
Pour tenir l’objectif de neutralité carbone en 2050, un collectif de personnalités appelle, dans une tribune au « Monde », à s’engager collectivement et individuellement dans une décroissance énergétique mondiale transformant nos vies et nos sociétés.
L’amélioration énergétique d’un produit induit une augmentation de son usage. Cet «effet rebond» s’applique partout, des conteneurs aux poêles en passant par les écrans, et il est difficile de s’en dépêtrer
Obsédés par les flux de la croissance, nous en oublions leur impact sur les stocks - de dette, de ressources naturelles, d'équilibre climatique.
In part two of Riccardo Mastini’s interview with Giorgos Kallis and Tim Jackson at the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament, they trace the history that led to growth being prized above all else and discuss how to conceptualise a future beyond growth. What does this mean for capitalism as we know it?
The European Union is seemingly fixated by economic growth. ‘Jobs, growth and investment’ is the European Commission’s headline priority and Eurozone budgets are carefully checked in the name of stability and growth. Yet is the pursuit of economic growth fueling climate change and environmental destruction? On the sidelines of the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament, we asked Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, if the time has come to leave growth behind.
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La croissance et le développement promis par tous les décideurs politiques sont-ils encore possibles dans des métropoles comme le Grand Paris ? La capitale n’est-elle pas en situation de surdéveloppement ? Bien sûr, il reste des quartiers à rénover, des friches à réinvestir, des situations précaires à améliorer mais tout cela tient plus de la réparation que du développement.
Pour ce billet nous avons essayé d’observer le Grand Paris sous l’angle économique. Entre le toujours plus de croissance et la notion souvent mal comprise de décroissance, quelles hypothèses poser pour que l’économie ne freine pas l’urgence de la transition ? Comment transformer l’économie elle-même ?
So, let us reach a truce and build a mass movement to take on the real enemies of environmental justice. This cannot be neglected.
In Europe, “degrowth” is actually a movement, while in the US it is barely mentionable in polite society. How can we get beyond this?
We absolutely need a Green New Deal, to mobilize a rapid rollout of renewable energy and put an end to fossil fuels.
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World shows the gulf between green growth strategies and the transition to a post-capitalist economy
Étudier la sobriété à partir des contraintes que connaissent des personnes en situation de précarité, c'est le pari d'une équipe de chercheurs dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Les conclusions sont surprenantes : le sujet n'est pas tabou et permet même, à certaines conditions, de poser des questions politiques et éthiques fondamentales. Une source d'inspiration pour nos institutions ?
Despite current economic challenges, energy and industrial leaders are expected to remain committed to their long-term plans to reduce fossil fuel reliance. Eighty-nine percent of executives surveyed across energy and industrial sectors reported already having or developing a strategy to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. While a temporary pause in spending on some priorities and […]
In 2020, April 1st has been stolen. …derailed by a pandemic, the severity of which is only matched by its suddenness, and which makes us think rather than laugh.
A pandemic that also brings us back to our condition as human beings, susceptible to disease – without borders or cure – and forced emigration. It also prompts us to remember that others on our planet face it far more often than we Westerners do.
L’existence et le développement des villes françaises ont souvent été déterminés par leurs activités économiques et industrielles. Alors que l’heure est à la décroissance pour beaucoup d’entre elles, le devenir des infrastructures qui leur étaient dédiées pose question. Que faire de ces sites qui subsistent à la désindustrialisation ? La conservation et la transformation de ces ensembles recouvrent de nombreux enjeux, d’ordre économique, écologique, patrimonial, politique et social.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned in a new report that “Europe will not achieve its sustainability vision of ‘living well within the limits of the planet’ by continuing to promote economic growth and seeking to manage the environmental and social impacts.”
The physics behind pro-growth environmentalism
It is an article of faith for the anti-capitalist, anti-trade left that endless economic growth is impossible on a finite planet. The sooner it can be brought to a halt, or even reversed, the better. This month’s IPCC report into the dire consequences of a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures will have given it encouragement. However, the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Paul Romer and William Nordhaus (i), in the same week, can only be interpreted as a huge slap in the face for the champions of “degrowth”.
The Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament marked a milestone in the history of the post-growth debate, which has predominately been contained within academic circles. In the first part of a two-part interview, Riccardo Mastini discusses the possibilities and challenges for imagining a world beyond growth with two key post-growth thinkers at the conference.
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