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Map of 1.5 °C scenarios

See Keyßer & Lenzen (2021) article in Nature

Annual increase in renewables

(EJ/yr)

Decoupling energy from GDP (%)

Business as usual growth

Global emissions pathway consistent with 1.5 degrees

Moving beyond the green growth vs degrowth debate

A Green New Deal

An end to our growth dependence

Common grounds for advancing

the green economy transformation?

@Beth_Stratford

Limits on resource use and waste

Efficiency gains do not guarantee resource reductions

 Scaling up the good stuff is only half the challenge. We also need policies aimed at scaling down the bad stuff.

1970

1946

2010

1992

Empower workers, reduce working hours

Maintaining jobs in a post growth economy

  • Reduce and redistribute working hours

  • Strengthen sectoral bargaining and democratise workplaces

  • A Green New Deal -> A job guarantee

Diffusing the power of rentiers

Tackle rent extraction

- Rents are incomes analogous to land rents

- Extracted through control of scarce and/or monopolisable assets (i.e. can’t be easily replicated)

- Put simply: rents are rewards for ownership and control rather than contribution

Reducing the threat of debt crises

Reduce our exposure to debt crises

  • Shift from debt to equity finance
  • Discourage inflationary forms of lending (e.g. mortgages)
  • Use the state's power of money creation more strategically

Safeguarding

basic needs

Safeguard basic needs

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