The ERC announced the winners of the Synergy Grants 2022 call on 25 October 2022. Twenty-nine projects have been selected for funding.

Environmentalists perceive the planet as limited the moment we are shooting out of its limits. We think of Earth as bounded - an ungenerous mother that limit...

Course thought to be world first agreed after university bowed to pressure from seven-day End Fossil protest

Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.

We could crush livelihoods to prevent ecosystem collapse — but that would be a last resort

There is no $75,000 income happiness threshold, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Killingsworth say. For most in the U.S. earning up to $500,000, more money can bring greater satisfaction.

Unorthodox economic ideas are finding a mainstream audience as climate change bites

Limits, degrowth and environmental justice

Environmentalists perceive the planet as limited the moment we are shooting out of its limits. We think of Earth as bounded - an ungenerous mother that limit...

The purpose of this plenary session is to propose a redefinition of prosperity beyond the mere criticism of GDP growth. This panel aims to propose an integra...

The influential French thinker explains the politics of the Gaia principle, the problems of post-truth and how coronavirus gives us a model for spreading ideas

A leading degrowth advocate uses empirical data to criticise the expectation of absolute decoupling of GDP growth from environmental damage.

The time is ripe for us to refocus on what really matters: not GDP, but the health and wellbeing of our people and our planet.

Limitless GDP growth, even in rich countries, is baked into climate modeling. It shouldn’t be.

In recent years, a group of economists, ecologists, and anthropologists has gained attention for trying to overturn a core tenet of economic policy — that growth is good for everyone. Known as the...

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking

Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating

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My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible…

By Gustavo García López and Diego Andreucci. The Green New Deal has become a central focus of debates around ecosocialist politics; this list brings together diverse resources to foster critical...

Europe’s push to abandon capitalism is motivated by optimism about politics—and pessimism about everything else.

If high-income countries continue to grow at their usual rates, they will need to decarbonize their economic outputs by more than 12 per cent a year.

A Japanese philosophy professor has scored an unlikely hit with a book denouncing unbridled consumption

Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.