The idea of #degrowth made it to the latest IPCC report.
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The term “degrowth” is mentioned 27 times in the 3,675 pages of the full report (12 of these mentions occur in the bibliography). There is no mention of it neither in the 96 pages technical summary nor in the 36 pages summary for policy makers.
The first mention of the term happens in “Chapter 1: Point of Departure and Key Concepts,” in the penultimate section titled “Facilitating Long-Term Transformation," where degrowth is contrasted with ecomodernism on the issue of decoupling.
On the same idea, one can also find the term once in one of the 23 paragraphs of the summary of Chapter 1.
The second mention is in "Chapter 18: Climate Resilient Development Pathways," in the section titled "Linking Development and Climate Action." Post-growth is presented as one of five categories of perspectives on development.
Another quick mention in this paragraph also from Chapter 18 pointing at degrowth when talking about "the quality of development processes and actions."
In this paragraph from Chapter 18, it is mentioned as part of an "extensive post-AR5 literature on political economy associated with various elements relevant to Climate Resilient Development."
The last, and most detailed mention can be found in a sub-section of Chapter 18 titled "Economic and financial arenas."
I am currently reading these sections in detail and I will soon publish a piece on the overall framing of degrowth and post-growth in the AR6.
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Finding: there is a net flow of resources from the global South to the global North. For example, for every unit of labour that the South imports from the North, they have to export on average 13 units to pay for it.
Here is an indispensable piece of work to understand the global dynamics of environmental pressures. Thomas Wiedmann & Manfred Lenzen in @NatureGeosci.
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In a globalised economy, many processes of production scatter through complex, international supply chains. To calculate the footprint of one single country, one must keep track of all the impacts its consumption has abroad.
This article is a review of the empirical literature that has looked at the environmental and social impacts embodied in international trade.
An interesting article by @JPTilsted et al. on the "green" growth of Nordic countries (that is actually not as green as you may have heard).
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The article criticises the concept of "Genuine Green Growth" from @estoknes and @jrockstrom arguing that the growth of Nordic countries is not as genuine and green as it seems.
In the Stoknes & Rockström paper, the authors show that the emission patterns of Nordic countries sometime meets the green growth requirement of a yearly 5% improvement in carbon productivity (the straight blue line).
One of my favourite papers of 2021: "The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations" by @AndrewLFanning, @DrDanONeill, @jasonhickel, and Nicolas Roux.
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The paper looks at 11 social and 6 environmental indicators for 140 countries between 1992 and 2015. It also models 'business-as-usual' projections up to 2050.
This donut-shaped figure shows which ecological boundaries are transgressed: the 'OVERSHOOT' (the red bits outward), and which social foundations are unreached: the 'SHORTFALL" (the red bits inward).