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This article was written by Boon Breyne in collaboration with Marilin Eessalu 2025 has been quite a year. Both the European Commission and many national governments have consistently moved power away from the people – but we do have good news. There is a blossoming movement for a radical and systemic shift away from the current social …
Degrowth: A blossoming movement in Europe’s grassroots and civil societyRead more
Lindsey Wuisan works on resource justice and new economies in the Friends of the Earth Europe office in Brussels. She joined grassroots defenders in Covas do Barroso, Portugal, resisting destructive lithium mining. Here is what she learned.
The movement to explore economic systems beyond growth is by now unstoppable. More and more grassroots collectives support this orientation, academic literature on benefits of degrowth is expanding fast and now, local civil society organise conferences to bring these systemic ideas closer to their national politicians – and into their very parliaments. Between April and …
A wave of Beyond Growth economics rolls across EuropeRead more
Across Europe, politicians, academics and civil society will explore the need for economic system transformation beyond growth at several national-level events. At least five Beyond Growth conferences have so far been confirmed, in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland and Italy – most of them taking place within national Parliaments. These events are a direct consequence of …
Original opinion piece by Emilia Reyes in Open Democracy World leaders are now in Dubai for COP28, where they are set to discuss how to fast-track the global push towards clean energy. And with the Global North responsible for 92% of the world’s excess carbon dioxide emissions and 74% of excess material use (half of …
Degrowth must go hand in hand with decolonisation to solve climate crisisRead more
For the second time, we brought representatives from academia, NGOs, grassroots and trade unions together around the topic of a beyond growth society in the EU.
An EU society beyond growth? We met again to discuss howRead more
