In this article we compare the current debate about global warming with the earlier discourse of Limits to Growth (LtG) of the 1970's. We are especially interested in the similarities of and differences between the two cases and therefore compare the policy challenges and lessons to be drawn....

Wie soll die Ökonomie der Zukunft aussehen? Die Autorinnen aus der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung kritisieren die Annahme der "grünen Ökonomie", dass technologische Innovationen ausreichend seien, um die notwendige Transformation unserer Wirtschaft im Sinne einer politischen Ökologie zu erreichen....

Unilateral climate policy suffers from carbon leakage, i.e. the (partial) offset of the initial emission reduction by increases in other countries. Different than most typically discussed climate policies, degrowth not only aims at reducing the fossil fuel use in an economy, but rather at a...