01405nas a2200109   4500008004100000245011300041210006900154260001200223520097200235100001901207856006901226       2014                        eng d00aA post-growth society for the 21st century - Does prosperity have to wait for the return of economic growth?0 apostgrowth society for the 21st century Does prosperity have to   aLeipzig3 aDegrowth Conference September 2014 Leipzig Scientific Session “Growth vs. Degrowth – Do we really have the choice?” Long Version Lucas Chancel, Damien Demailly (IDDRI)/Henri Waisman, Céline Guivarch (CIRED) A post-growth society for the 21st century - Does prosperity have to wait for the return of economic growth? To respond to this dissatisfaction with the current political and media discourse on growth, this report attempts to answer – as far as possible – the two following questions: 1. Can we have any certainty about the future of growth? 2. Assuming that the coming decades will be a period of weak growth fluctuating between an annual 1% growth and a stagnant GDP, can we still prosper? To answer these questions, we have studied the economic literature, organised seminars bringing together practitioners, policy makers and experts and carried out a modelling exercise to investigate the links between the energy-climate nexus and the economy.1 aChancel, Lucas  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3788