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Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

The new joint policy brief offers a deep dive into the ways in which the social and solidarity economy can advance the objectives of the Roadmap by supporting the eradication of poverty beyond growth.

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Indispensables à la transition écologique, le passage à l’échelle des énergies renouvelables nécessite de réduire le coût du financement des investissements initiaux, particulièrement importants.

On this day, October 27, 1990, the British Magazine the Economist had a cover story about “global warming” and international agreements.

Le but de cette fiche est de passer en revue les différents gaz à effet de serre, puis de comprendre comment les scientifiques obtiennent des données historiques les concernant et la manière dont les émissions sont mesurées aujourd’hui. Cette fiche sera aussi l’occasion de détailler certaines des problématiques que peut poser la comptabilité carbone, et d’analyser comment elle s’inscrit dans un cadre politique qui lui est indissociable.

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy. Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development. Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification. At the same time, in high

La question des inégalités est complexe : étudier les inégalités signifie s’intéresser à la manière dont des biens ou des richesses sont distribués à différentes échelles (locale, nationale ou internationale). La notion d’inégalités est souvent associée à celle de pauvreté qui désigne, elle, une insuffisance financière, matérielle, etc.

EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’ […] The European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The continent has made “important progress” in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European Environment Agency, but the death of wildlife and breakdown of the climate are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy.