Green Growth

Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

Improving energy efficiency is not enough for advocates of degrowth, who espouse energy sufficiency as the best way to fight climate change. But their argument is absurd: using limited inputs more efficiently is the definition of economic productivity – which, in turn, boosts growth.

2 May 24

How China Can Save the World – and Itself

by Gernot Wagner & Conor Walsh

30 Oct 23

The Green Growth Mindset

Heated academic debates between proponents and opponents of traditional economic growth under capitalism might make for good television, but they offer little in the way of solutions. Climate change demands that we achieve both growth and degrowth, depending on the activity and economic sector in question.

29 Sep 23