Reports, videos and analysis on the Green Economy.
A study into the diverse perspectives on how we should pursue economic development under conditions of continuing environmental degradation. The aim is to look beyond labels of ‘green economy’, ‘harmony with nature’, ‘sustainable development’ etc. to identify genuine points of agreement and disagreement.
Richard Dyer is a campaigner in the Economics and Resources Programme, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This is his response to the working paper: The inequality of overconsumption: The ecological footprint of the richest (published in November 2015 by the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin […]
Katherine Trebeck is Global Research Policy Adviser at Oxfam. This is her response to the working paper: The inequality of overconsumption: The ecological footprint of the richest (published in November 2015 by the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University). The issues of economic inequality and climate change are intrinsically […]
Alex Cobham is director of research at the Tax Justice Network, and a visiting fellow at King’s College London. This is his response to the working paper: The inequality of overconsumption: The ecological footprint of the richest (published in November 2015 by the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin […]
The summit was held in October 2015 in Bolivia The aim of the event was to propose solutions to tackle climate change ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris at the end of 2015. The first conference on climate change and the rights of […]
This report argues that REDD+, a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is a “not a solution to climate change” and instead locks in the existing model of industrial agriculture which is one of the drivers of deforestation and therefore contributing to climate change.
There are growing calls for green transformations. This book explores what this means in practice and who will push it forward. “Transformations are inevitably multiple and contested” and so “politics and power are important to how pathways are shaped, which pathways win out and why, and who benefits from them”
The working paper The inequality of overconsumption: the ecological footprint of the richest (published in November 2015 by Anglia Ruskin University, UK) includes an exercise that attempts to quantify the ecological footprint of the richest in the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom and France.
This report strongly criticises the green economy arguing it is a false solution to address climate change. GJEP say it is too late to simply reform the global economy. It needs to be transformed.
Is valuing nature as natural capital the way to reduce environmental degradation or a dangerous distraction that will commodify the environment? Alongside debates on if we should value natural capital is another question that is very rarely asked: who should value nature? This exclusive interview with Pavan Sukhdev is […]