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New research concludes that humanity would benefit more if it aims for ecological sustainability and stays within the limits of what Earth can provide, rather than pursuing relentless growth.

GIORGOS KALLIS 

FEBRUARY 2025

Degrowth, Well-being

Uno de los conceptos que más polémica genera entre los economistas es el de decrecimiento. Mientras unos consideran que es imprescindible, otros lo tachan de utopía, aunque en medio existen muchos grises. 

GIORGOS KALLIS 

JANUARY 2025

Degrowth

Per sortir del xoc emocional i dels clixés arran de la dana que ha arrasat València, anem a l’Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma a parlar amb tres especialistes en economia i política ecològiques

GIORGOS KALLIS 

NOVEMBER 2024 

Article in El País (in catalan) 

The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring

JASON HICKEL, MORENA HANBURY-LEMOS 

AUGUST 2024 

Article in The Guardian 

Today’s interdependent and aggravating social-ecological crises warrant a profound rethinking of our economic system. “Putting people and planet before profit” must not stay a slogan but become a reality. 

ELENA HOFFERBERTH, MATTHIAS SCHMELZER 

NOVEMBER 2024 

Special issue on utopias 

Policy Orientations for a Consistent
Social-Ecological Future for the EU

ÉLOI LAURENT, JULIA STEINBERGER, YAMINA SAHEB AND FRANÇOIS DENUIT
APRIL 2024
Green deal, Just Transition

Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.

JASON HICKEL 

JANUARY  2024

Universal Basic Income (UBI) 

Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. 

JASON HICKEL, MICHAEL MOATSOS, DYLAN SULLIVAN

APRIL 2024 

Blog post on measuring extreme poverty 

I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so far been inadequately developed.  

JASON HICKEL

DECEMBER 2023

Blog post on degrowth climate mitigation strategy

Europe’s push to abandon capitalism is motivated by optimism about politics—and pessimism about everything else.
DECEMBER 2023

Article in Foreign Policy

La reciente crisis del sector eólico, la falta y los precios de ciertas materias primas y el declive de los fósiles disparan el interés por esta teoría. ¿Será inevitable decrecer?
NOVEMBER 2023

Article in La Razón (spanish) 

Is capitalism the problem? Experts weigh in on ways to address the great carbon divide
JASON HICKEL, JULIA STEINBERGER
NOVEMBER 2023

Article in The Guardian

Nous abordons aujourd’hui la question de la position des scientifiques dans l’engagement politique.

JULIA STEINBERGER

SEPTEMBER 2023

Talk in LIMIT (french) 

Numerous scholars propose post-growth or doughnut economics as a vision for a desirable, just and ecologically restorative future.

JULIA STEINBERGER, JASON HICKEL, GIORGOS KALLIS

AUG 2023

Interview in Circular Metabolism Podcast 

Jason lays out the policies that ecosocialism should provide: universal public services, a public works program, and the job guarantee.

JASON HICKEL

AUGUST 2023

Interview in Real Progressives

Rachel Donald talks to scientists and activists who are turning to protest because of the gate-keepers in the media who refuse to cover their research
JULIA STEINBERGER

MAY 2023

Article in Byline Times

The Beyond Growth 2023 Conference is a multi-stakeholder event aiming to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe…

JASON HICKEL

MAY 2023

Talk at Beyond Growth conference

This panel aims to propose an integrated social-ecological approach to the design of a European future-fit economy…

GIORGOS KALLIS

MAY 2023

Talk at Beyond Growth Plenary

During the public lecture, Julia Steinberger will present her current research project “Living Well within Limits” and discuss questions such as What are the biophysical resources, more specifically energy, required to achieve human well-being?
JULIA STEINBERGER
MAY 2023

Public lecture

As Europe embraces clean energy to fight climate change, a leading ecological economist argues for going beyond “green growth”.
GIORGOS KALLIS
MAY 2023

Article in Horizon

…we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition…
JASON HICKEL, GIORGOS KALLIS, JULIA STEINBERGER et al.
MAY 2023

Open letter to “move beyond growth”

Professor Kallis joins the show to talk about degrowth economics and why it is critical to achieve the degrowth goals if we want to reduce the negative impacts of the climate crisis.
GIORGOS KALLIS
MARCH 2023

Interview in The Climate Pod

Ecological and social limits to growth are often brought up in the context where we need to respect these external boundaries and restrain ourselves accordingly.
GIORGOS KALLIS
MARCH 2023

Interview in Economics for Rebels

As a system precariously based on growth becomes more unstable, it is important to turn to those who specialize in ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking.

GIORGOS KALLIS

JANUARY 2023

Interview in The Great Simplification

In October of this year Giorgos Kallis, Julia Steinberger and Jason Hickel were awarded 9.9 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a project titled Pathways towards post growth deals.

GIORGOS KALLIS

DECEMBER 2022

Interview in degrowth.info

As the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability?

JASON HICKEL

SEPTEMBER 2022

Panel discussion at Oxford Smith School

Ante el reto climático y la gestión de recursos, ¿necesitan las sociedades imponer límites a su propio crecimiento?
GIORGOS KALLIS
JUNE 2022

Interview in Ethic (spanish) 

Make the struggle for life itself the thing that brings you comfort, because that’s all we have now.
JULIA STEINBERGER
JUNE 2022

Blog post in Medium

Some valuable lessons learned: Listen first, speak second. Don’t just inform and educate … enable and engage. And apply those lessons at next opportunity.
JULIA STEINBERGER
MAY 2022

Blog post in Medium 

Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.

GIORGOS KALLIS

MAY 2022

Article in Monthly Review

This episode’s guest is Julia Steinberger, and we talk about what it would mean for humankind to live well while respecting the nature’s limited resources.

JULIA STEINBERGER
JUNE 2021

Talk in Economics for Rebels

As policymakers prioritize an economic rebound, scholars are backing an idea that pushes social and ecological wellbeing over a system that pursues relentless economic growth.
GIORGOS KALLIS, JASON HICKEL, JULIA STEINBERGER
MAY 2021

Article at CNBC

On this episode we talk about how to live well within limits, on how affluence is the strongest determinants of global impacts, what are some radical approaches to get out from the current mess and what are some strategies the reduce the environmental impact of cities.
JULIA STEINBERGER
APRIL 2021

Talk in Circular Metabolism Podcast

On this episode, we talk with Giorgos Kallis, who is an ecological economist and political ecologist working on environmental justice and limits to growth.
GIORGOS KALLIS
FEBRUARY 2021

Degrowth, political ecology

On this episode, we talk with Giorgos Kallis, who is an ecological economist and political ecologist working on environmental justice and limits to growth. We discuss about degrowth, political ecology, common sense and cities.
GIORGOS KALLIS
FEBRUARY 2021

Talk in Circular Metabolism Podcast

Jason Hickel explains what economists have gotten wrong and shows us how much more we could accomplish by embracing degrowth.

JASON HICKEL

AUGUST 2020

Interview in Macro n Cheese

We must not reproduce the ideology of capitalist growth, which created the climate crisis in the first place.
GIORGOS KALLIS
MARCH 2019

Opinion in Truthout

Giorgos Kallis explains why we should all be living ‘the degrowth way’.
GIORGOS KALLIS
NOVEMBER 2015

Opinion in New Internationalist

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JOEL MILLWARD-HOPKINS

NOVEMBER 2020

Sustainability, Test, Degrowth