Post-growth economics rise as climate limits loom
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The piece explores whether economic growth can be decoupled from carbon emissions, highlighting the growing influence of post-growth ideas (such as doughnut economics and wellbeing budgets) in response to slipping climate targets and calls from leaders like the UN chief to move beyond GDP as a progress measure, while debating how far de-growth should go to keep the planet within safe limits.
- Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? The Guardian
- UN Secretary-General calls for abandoning GDP as the main indicator of economic development Українські Національні Новини (УНН)
- Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief The Guardian
- Interview With Distinguished Fellow Csaba Kőrösi: Beyond GDP and How We Measure Progress jica.go.jp
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