Keynote speech by ecological economist Federico Demaria at “Well-being beyond GDP growth? Panel Discussion on Post-growth in the Era of Multiple Crises.” Organized by the European Commission (Brussels, 22nd February, 12.30).
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"Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability: The need to fill in the gap between science and policy making."
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Federico Demaria is an ecological economist at Environmental Science and Technology Institute, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is the co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (Routledge, 2015), a book translated into ten languages, and of the forthcoming "Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary". He is a founding member of Research & Degrowth. Currently, he coordinates the research project EnvJustice, funded by the European Research Council.
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The Environmental Science and Technology Institute at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA UAB) belongs to the world top ten research institutes on environmental studies. It has received about 20 millions of euro in the last 5 years by the European Commission. In the last 2 years, it also obtained 5 ERC grants that fall under the “Excellent Science” pillar of the EU's Horizon 2020 programme. The Spanish Ministry of Economy accredited ICTA UAB as a Unit of Excellence for research on climate change. The award is the highest institutional recognition of scientific research in Spain. Researchers regularly publish in top scientific journals, like Science and Nature.
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Degrowth in the EU Parliament (Brussels, 18-19 September 2018): Post-growth conference to challenge the economic thinking of EU institutions with influent EU policy-makers. More info at: [ Ссылка ]
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BOOK: Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
edited by Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis (Routledge, 2014)
Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.
This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels – local, national and global.
The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
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Panel Discussion on Post-Growth in the Era of Multiple Crises
Is economic/GDP growth an appropriate EU policy goal in the face of environmental, societal and economic crises – OR have economic and material growth ceased to contribute to societal well-being, rather creating environmental and health concerns for present and future generations?
Since the decoupling of GDP/economic growth from CO2 emissions is only possible in relative terms or by offshoring production, is it time we concentrated on new ways of measuring success in society in the EU?
Introduction:
Etienne Coyette
Team Leader,
DG DEVCO C6 – Sustainable Energy, Climate Change
Video presentation:
Federico Demaria
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Panel discussion:
Fulvia Raffaelli
Head of Unit, DG GROW C1 – Clean Technologies and Products
Philippe Lamberts
MEP, European Parliament, Co-chair: Group of the Greens
Tom Bauler
Chair of the Department of Environment and Economics, ULB
Moderator:
Patrizia Heidegger
Director for Global Policies and Sustainability, European Environmental Bureau
Conference Language: English
Language Q&A session: English
Information and web-streaming: www.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/infopoint
