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Inger Andersen, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development

Economic growth leads to poverty reduction, but the economic, environmental, and social aspects of growth must be beneficial to all. “We work from the basic belief that ‘green growth’ is not just desirable, it is possible” — watch what Inger Andersen, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, had to say on the connection between climate change, green growth, and development.

http://www.worldbank.org/annualreport/2010

This talk by Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute) focuses on the ‘Green Economy’. It considers how the Green Economy can be characterised and defined; what are the origins and limits to growth; and the policy challenge posed by environmental and economic sustainability concerns.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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I tried to be kurzgesagt, I really did…

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Books:
Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan, “The Future is Degrowth”
Jason Hickel, “Less Is More”
Edward Fullbrook & Jamie Morgan (eds), “Economics and the Ecosystem”
Giovanna Ricoveri, “Nature for Sale”
Ian Angus, “Facing the Anthropocene”

Videos:
Kurzgesagt, “We WILL Fix Climate Change!”
https://tinyurl.com/4yashtup
Kurzgesagt, “Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change?”
https://tinyurl.com/yyb79hxf
BadEmpenada, “No, Kurzgesagt, We WON’T Fix Climate Change”
https://tinyurl.com/yw933rwb
The Guardian, “Will green technology kill Chile’s deserts?”
https://tinyurl.com/ycxbbp4u
Glocal Weirdo, “THIS BOOK CURED MY ECO-ANXIETY”
https://tinyurl.com/2mfradwd
Our Changing Climate, “How to End Consumerism”
https://tinyurl.com/yc4rxjw7

Studies on decoupling:
Hickel & Kallis, Is Green Growth Possible?
https://tinyurl.com/367w4npr
EEB, Decoupling Debunked:
https://tinyurl.com/2u5jrkvv
Haberl et al, “A systematic review…”
https://tinyurl.com/muf7b495

Articles:
Current Affairs, “Stubborn Attachment”
https://tinyurl.com/bdhda9t5
Steffen et al, “The trajectory of the Anthropocene”
https://tinyurl.com/3rm767vj
Our World in Data, Primary Energy Consumption by Source
https://tinyurl.com/bd7unatb
World Economic Forum, “top 10 manufacturing countries in the world”
https://tinyurl.com/3j72j9cz
Capellan-Perez et al , “Dynamic Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) “
https://tinyurl.com/ue4av7x
CarbonBrief, “IEA: Mineral supplies for electric cars”
https://tinyurl.com/5armsz4s
IUCN, Deep-sea mining
https://tinyurl.com/6taur98d
CounterPunch, ‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want’
https://tinyurl.com/jvkd82d5
Timothée Parrique, Decoupling in the IPCC AR6 WGIII
https://tinyurl.com/35mbbuk4
Guy Harrington, Update to limits to growth
https://tinyurl.com/y244mmsb
WWF, “A warning sign from our planet”
https://tinyurl.com/2phhaxtz
IPBES, global assessment report 2019
https://ipbes.net/global-assessment
Wikipedia, Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
https://tinyurl.com/3ky4sje6
WEF, The New Plastics Economy
https://tinyurl.com/mryap35y
DW, Pollinating by hand: Doing bees’ work
https://tinyurl.com/4xknt5wy
IPCC, WGII SPM
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
The Guardian b, Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ud82k
WMO “50:50 chance of 1.5°C in next five years”
https://tinyurl.com/2s34fnm9
Business Insider, “the myth of ‘trickle-down'”
https://tinyurl.com/yc24bvp8
Parrique, “Degrowth in the IPCC AR6 WGII”
https://tinyurl.com/hk7sz8ea
Parrique, “Degrowth in the IPCC AR6 WGIII”
https://tinyurl.com/bd2e2d99
Washington Post, “The cobalt pipeline”
https://tinyurl.com/3r9zcx8c
The Guardian, “Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city”
https://tinyurl.com/yfwmaxww
Forbes, “Bangladesh Is Burning And Sweatshops Are The Fuel”
https://tinyurl.com/5zhc5cn8
BBC, “How overwork is literally killing us”
https://tinyurl.com/yw6a3uxp
Consultancy.uk, “Freelancers pushed to breaking-point by long hours and low pay”
https://tinyurl.com/533d6dfh
WEF, “Cost of living crisis”
https://tinyurl.com/yjypju3p
WEF, “What does ‘global debt’ mean and how high is it now?”
https://tinyurl.com/2p8futrt
Gallup, “The World’s Broken Workplace”
https://tinyurl.com/rr4d2n7h
Boston Review, “Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability”
https://tinyurl.com/2p86xpau
Psychology Today, “Why Over-Consumption Is Making Us Unhappy”
https://tinyurl.com/mr248u57
MarketWatch, “The dark reasons so many rich people are miserable human beings”
https://tinyurl.com/3bs3mu9r
PsychCentral, “Are Wealthy People More Depressed Than Others?”
https://tinyurl.com/3w4ct5de
EDF, This stereotype is holding back the environmental movement
https://tinyurl.com/bdhp4dhd
The Conversation, How much do people around the world care about climate change?
https://tinyurl.com/yc3xu8sn
Vice , How the World’s Billionaires Prepare for the Apocalypse
https://tinyurl.com/8xxj6e6u