Climate and Energy

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Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

How should the energy sector be organized in a degrowth society?

What strategies should the degrowth movement adopt to curb climate change? Divestment, deindustrialization, conversion...?

Papers

S. Abdallah, BRAINPOoL: Lessons from the Beyond GDP world for degrowth, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon jeffrey_beyondGDPIndicatorsForADegrowthTransition_Brainpool.pdf (2.19 MB)PDF icon 3464.pdf (89.04 KB)
A. Acosta, Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3792.pdf (50.53 KB)
A. Acosta, Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism  in Latin America, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3791.pdf (41.08 KB)
A. Acquarone and Prohias, J. Pàmias, The Foundation Theory, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3497.pdf (307.73 KB)
J. - L. Aillon, Guindani, M., Dal Santo, E., Zummo, S., Montis, A., and Pallante, M., How to built, organize and manage degrowth movements rooted in the territory?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Aill.pdf (253.23 KB)
R. Aitken, Building a social and ecological economy through a social accounting model of banking, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3636.pdf (104.07 KB)
B. Akbulut, Adaman, P. Fikret, Arsel, M., and Avci, D., De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3737.pdf (70.75 KB)

Results from Leipzig 2014

Proposals for the Transformation

  • Energy consulting would lead to efficiency gains (free of charge or financed solidarily)

  • Efficiency contracting by cooperations

Vision

  • Regional democratic decision on production/distribution

  • Free basic energy according to needs

  • Energy as common good (no profiting)

  • Super regional democratic decision of energy for industry

Results from Barcelona 2010

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More