**New Paper** “Feasible Alternatives to Green Growth” out today in @Naturesustainab (w/ @simonedalessa12 , @krisdittmer & Tiziano Distefano) nature.com/articles/s4189…
Here is a brief summary 1/6
#sustainability #inequality #academictwitter #degrowth
Here is a brief summary 1/6
#sustainability #inequality #academictwitter #degrowth
The paper is based on our Eurogreen model which simulates the French economy with heterogeneous households, industries and RES. We focus on the distributive impact of #renewableenergy policies and whether social policies can foster a low-carbon transition with social equity. 2/6
The simulation results suggest that a combination of policies for renewable energy, carbon taxes and incentives to innovation (green growth - GG), even when successful in terms of GHG emissions, increases inequality and unemployment 3/6
Adding radical social policies - job guarantee and working time reduction - to GG (PSE) leads to a very similar GHG reduction with improvements in income distribution and an increase in public deficits. Further GHG reductions are obtained in the degrowth scenario 4/6
The success of green growth policies to reduce emissions is also tied to their failure to promote a significant boost in GDP growth which would offset the benefits of increased energy efficiency 5/6
• We thank @ph_lamberts, @terryreintke, @baseickhout, @fmarcellesi, @unipisa and @locomotionh2020 for funding. Previous versions of the model received contributions from @f_demaria and Claudio Cattaneo, and funding from @karimadelli, @ernestmaragall, @BartStaes and @yjadot 6/6
