{"id":721,"date":"2014-10-27T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=721"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:43:13","slug":"degrowth-movement-refuted-by-climate-report-no-not-at-all-degrowth-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leipzig.degrowth.org\/en\/2014\/10\/degrowth-movement-refuted-by-climate-report-no-not-at-all\/\">Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: 'Fontin Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Right before the recent\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/blog\/live\/2014\/sep\/23\/un-climate-change-summit-in-new-york-live-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">UN climate change summi<\/a>t and shortly after the Leipzig Degrowth-Conference,\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/sep\/16\/climate-change-report-damage-overhaul-global-economy\" target=\"_blank\">international media<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/sep\/16\/barack-obama-report-economy-grow-fight-climate-change-un-summit\" target=\"_blank\">governments<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/leipzig.degrowth.org\/en\/2014\/10\/degrowth-movement-refuted-by-climate-report-no-not-at-all\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=48732#.VCEf9hZ67WA\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled \u201c<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/newclimateeconomy.report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Better Growth, Better Climate<\/a>\u201d and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: 'Fontin Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">While the report, released by the<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/newclimateeconomy.net\/content\/global-commission\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Global Commission on the Economy and Climate<\/a>, is supposed to drive climate-action by world leaders, business executives and investors, critical scientists fear that its\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/politics\/no-economic-growth-and-climate-stability-do-not-go-hand-in-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">central message<\/a>\u00a0will open the door for business-as-usual approaches and play down the urgency of immediate and far-reaching action.<span id=\"more-77499\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: 'Fontin Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Accordingly, University of Melbourne\u00b4s\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #97ae39; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable.unimelb.edu.au\/content\/people\/samuel_alexander\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Alexander<\/a>\u00a0points out that \u201cwhile the report has some merit insofar as it highlights the importance of energy efficiency, pricing carbon, investing in renewable energy, it fails miserably to justify its core conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: 'Fontin Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all! | Degrowth 2014. Right before the recent\u00a0UN climate change summit and shortly after the Leipzig Degrowth-Conference,\u00a0international media,\u00a0governments\u00a0and the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled \u201cBetter Growth, Better Climate\u201d and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,203],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-degrowth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}