IMPACT NEWS
Tim Jackson has been awarded the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics for his book Post Growth: Life after Capitalism. The prize celebrates outstanding writing on the environmental limits of a finite planet.
The siren call of climate-burning expansion bewitches British politics. More of the same will emerge in the autumn statement, Tim Jackson writes. To all intents and purposes, we’re already living in a post-growth world. And it’s time to take that challenge seriously.
SankeySim was developed to support the work of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on the Circular Economy in Canada and the preparation of their report Turning Point (2021). In this working paper, we describe the SankeySim model that calculates the impact on materials throughput of various measures intended to increase the circularity of the Canadian economy.
Pioneering post-growth research by Tim Jackson and Peter Victor—showing that improved environmental and social outcomes are possible even as the growth rate declines to zero—has informed work on the recently published White Paper from the Office of Canadian Senator Rosa Galvez on ‘Building forward Better’, outlining key recommendations for a clean and just recovery from the Covid-19 Pandemic, to “help shift our concept of growth to be centered around sustainable prosperity.”
In 2019, the United Nations Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published a comprehensive review of biodiversity. With Prof Tim Jackson as contributing author to Chapter 6 ‘Options for Decision Makers’, the review recognises that ‘a key element of more sustainable future policies is the evolution of global financial and economic systems to build a global sustainable economy, steering away from the current limited paradigm of economic growth’.
The European Economic and Social Committee overwhelmingly adopted an ‘own-initiative opinion’ on the sustainable and inclusive ‘wellbeing economy’ that Europe needs. A call on the EU ‘for a new vision of prosperity’, developed in close collaboration with CUSP director Tim Jackson as Expert to the Rapporteur.
Under the title Is Growth an Illusion?, Deutsche Bank is hosting an event programme in Davos, accompanying the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum; to discuss the future of growth with leading politicians and internationally renowned experts from various fields. CUSP director Tim Jackson is joining a panel with Christiana Riley and Andrew McAfee.
Why are we so obsessed with economic growth, knowing that it has devastating effects on our finite planet (and ultimately us)? SYSTEM ERROR looks for answers to this principal contradiction of our time and considers global capitalism from the perspective of those who run it.
On 15 October, the UK Ministry of Defence’s think tank, the Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre, published it’s sixth Global Strategic Trends report. ‘The Future Starts Today’ draws on a range of analysis across academia, business, government departments and nations from across the globe, including commissioned research by CUSP Director Tim Jackson.
Scientists, politicians, and policymakers gathering in Brussels for landmark conference: Hosted at the EU parliament, the multi-stakeholder event is exploring visions and solutions for a post-growth economy in Europe. First of its kind.
CUSP Director Tim Jackson to receive prestigious international award for exceptional mid-career leadership; recognising and celebrating Tim’s “remarkable contribution, and his framing of a sustainable prosperity within the reality of environmental and social limits.”