Door klimaatverandering staat de leefbaarheid van steden onder druk. Arnhem experimenteert daarom op verschillende terreinen met klimaatmaatregelen.
Can a European Union that is the first to renounce economic growth still be a global player? In a webinar, we explored the tensions and synergies between post-growth and geopolitics. Watch the video.
Het kapitalisme is vastgelopen. Daarom lanceren we een boek over postkapitalisme: 'Er is wél een alternatief'. De komende maanden trekken we het land door met de Postkapitalisme-karavaan om er met jullie over in gesprek te gaan.
In the European Union, we need to move beyond growth, but we must be careful not to impose any particular model of development on the Global South. On 30 August, Richard Wouters participated in the plenary session 'Geopolitics of Degrowth', hosted by the Green European Foundation, at the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb. Read his opening statement and watch the video of the session.
De Raad van Advies van Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks krijgt versterking. Met gepaste trots verwelkomen we twee nieuwe leden: Naima Azough en Hans Stegeman.
Paul Ingram presents a radical perspective of how global geopolitics needs to shift away from a security framing to one where mutual vulnerability is accepted, together with ideas on how a step-by-step change in geopolitics needs to progress alongside the changes in economics proposed by the degrowth movement.
Peter Newell highlights how a degrowth strategy would impact on geopolitics by addressing the sources of geopolitical competition and violence. If the acquisition of ever more resources to feed expanding production and consumption is no longer a core aim of state policy, the violence required to access and maintain access to those resources within and between countries also becomes redundant.
We discuss the EU-Chile trade agreement with degrowth researcher Gabriela Cabaña Alvear.