Nature - Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.

How can we sustain human well-being within planetary boundaries? What policies and provisioning systems could enable societies to prosper without growth? What politics and alliances are necessary for...

  Thinking of goods as circular and leaving a lighter environmental footprint are ideas that are moving from niche to norm. Growing numbers of people now buy less stuff and buy better quality,...

As part of the Horizon 2020 project "EU 1.5°Lifestyles", we are trying to identify necessary structural changes for a transition to lifestyles that fit the 1.5° climate target of the Paris Agreement....

Motorists travelling through the City of Brussels from today will face traffic changes as a larger part of the city becomes a low traffic zone.

A transition towards a degrowth economy is necessary to tackle the related challenges of resource scarcity and waste accumulation. Degrowth pursues socio-economic wealth while reducing material flows...

Dietary changes help halve nitrogen losses.

Human Chain for Climate, Brussels, 8 December 2019 Briefing : the facts and figures behind the seven requests in our petition Discussion Paper : the systemic context and scientific basis which unde…

The ERC is providing 10 million euros for an ICTA-UAB project that will study how to escape from a growth economy and ensure social welfare and...

A deal between Sweden's political parties positions the country to take responsibility for the carbon footprint of imported goods

An updated story of how the European Commission is exploring ways to apply Doughnut Economics in policy processes

Human Chain for Climate, Brussels, 8 December 2019 Briefing : the facts and figures behind the seven requests in our petition Discussion Paper : the systemic context and scientific basis which unde…

Existing climate mitigation scenarios tend to project a high GDP growth, even though growth leads to increased energy use and emissions. We show that pathways of low growth make it possible to pursue...

Ce jeudi 16 décembre, le sort de la friche Josaphat va être fixé par une décision politique primordiale. Associations et habitants demandent à être entendus et invitent le Gouvernement bruxellois à...

Nature - As global methane concentrations soar over 1,900 parts per billion, some researchers fear that global warming itself is behind the rapid rise.

Read our thoughts on and take-aways from the ground-breaking Beyond Growth 2023 Conference held at the European Parliament in May 2023, labelled by some participants as the ‘Woodstock of Degrowth’.…

An updated story of how the European Commission is exploring ways to apply Doughnut Economics in policy processes

Durant les vacances scolaires de Pâques, soit du lundi 4 avril au vendredi 15 inclus, Tendances Première vous propose...

Climatic Change - Climate change mitigation policies tend to focus on the energy sector, while the livestock sector receives surprisingly little attention, despite the fact that it accounts for 18%...