![[:en]The Left should embrace degrowth[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/degrowth-240x180.jpg)
[:en]The Left should embrace degrowth[:]
[:en][By Giorgios Kallis on Newint.org] Degrowth is a frontal attack on the ideology of economic growth. Some call it a critique: a slogan or a ‘missile word’. Others talk of the ‘theory of’ – or the ‘literature on’ – degrowth; or of degrowth policies’. Many see themselves as the ‘degrowth movement’ or claim they live ‘the degrowth way’. What is degrowth and where did it come from? Origins Intellectually, the origins of degrowth are...
![[:en]EJOLT Report 23: Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ejolt-240x240.png)
[:en]EJOLT Report 23: Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris[:]
[:en][ ejolt.org] The full report can be downloaded here. Abstract The climate and environmental justice debates are heating up ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, scheduled for December this year in Paris. In theory, the conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change, from all the nations of the world. However, within the United Nations Framework Convention on...
![[:en]A rig too far[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Antartide-viaggio-e-crociera-lusso_-img-74_353-240x240.jpg)
[:en]A rig too far[:]
[:en][ on economist.com] OIL companies have a proud history of digging holes in inaccessible places and producing gushers of money. But in the Chukchi Sea, in the Alaskan Arctic, Shell has poured $7 billion into a single 6,800-foot exploratory well, making it possibly the most expensive hole yet drilled, only to admit this week that it had not found enough oil and gas to make further exploration worthwhile. That was a big...
![[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nuclear-energy-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Italian climate policy: doubling fossil fuel extraction.[:]
[:en][By Camila Rolando Mazzuca on ejolt.org] Today’s world energy production mainly derives from non-renewable sources and represents up to 47% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions for the 2000s decade. These emissions reinforce the inequalities between low income populations, whose environment and health are usually the most affected by it, and the profits made by fossil-fuel corporations. While threatening the climate and...
![[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mano-oil-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Latest News on the (never-ending) Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador case[:]
[:en][by [Camila Rolando on CDCA.IT] Recap on the Texaco/Chevron disaster in Ecuadorian Amazon The Texaco company started oil drilling activities in Ecuadorian Amazon in 1964 and continued up to 1994. Thrilled by the promises of dollars, Ecuadorian State’s representatives and decision-makers welcomed Texaco to the country. The arrangements between the national State and the transnational company were with no consultation or concern...
![[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]](https://www.cdca.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1-240x240.png)
[:en]Undisciplined Environments: ENTITLE conference full program[:]
[:en][by entitlefellows] A compilation of panels and workshops that have open calls for contributions to the Undisciplined Environments international political ecology conference (Stockholm, March 20-23, 2016). The International political ecology conference UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS will be held in Stockholm, 20-23 March 2016. The Conference is organized by the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), the Centre for Social...
