Economic growth is destroying more than it is creating, argues the French president as he calls for a new measure of national wealth
… GDP should be scrapped, says Sarkozy The Ecologist | 15th September 2009 News GDP Economic Growth Sustainability Happy … report which urges governments to stop using GDP as the primary measure of progress. The …
Current conservation list criticised for being biased towards vertebrates and neglecting most plants, fungi and invertebrates
… the natural world NEWS ANALYSIS Sticking with GDP could be the best safeguard for nature … some believe a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement that includes natural capital … Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth Deutsche Bank economist Pavan …
New research predicts that coastal regions face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the 21st century - to $100 trillion annually, more than the world's entire economic product today.
… world's current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - represents the upper end of the … will cost between 0.3 and 9.3% of global GDP by 2100, taking into acount expected GDP increases. But timely investments in …
England becoming a country of 'beauty spots rather than beauty', and must act fast to address declining biodiversity, says the government’s environment watchdog
… Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth Deutsche Bank economist Pavan … - valuing it NEWS ANALYSIS Sticking with GDP could be the best safeguard for nature … some believe a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement that includes natural capital …
Promises to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 have not been met by any national government, according to the UN, which is calling for taxes and incentives to encourage action
… to our well-being,' he said. Time to reform GDP The UNEP report blamed, in part, 'perverse … growth objectives on a narrowly-defined GDP measurement. Instead, leaders should be …
Ecosystems are buffering humanity against the worst impacts of global warming and also alleviating poverty, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
… three-year study NEWS ANALYSIS Sticking with GDP could be the best safeguard for nature … some believe a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement that includes natural capital … economic growth. So Sarkozy's recent move on GDP is welcome …
A new report reveals Shell's expanding investment in the most polluting fuels, attempts to scupper plans to act on climate change and the complicity of top executives in continued gas flaring in Nigeria
… Oil accounts for 80 per cent of the country's GDP A new report reveals Shell's expanding …
The steady loss of forests, soils, wetlands, fisheries, species and coral reefs around the world is closely tied to the lack of value we put on nature, says three-year study
… is consumption-led, production-driven, and GDP-measured. This model is in need of …
Phasing out fossil fuels, encouraging faster take-up of renewables and making radical improvements in energy efficiency would double Europe's emission cuts, says study
… likely to be between 1 and 3 per cent of EU GDP. 'While this is not a trival sum by any …
In this month's newsletter, we look at using historical records to understand today's fish populations; we wonder whether existing sustainable businesses will support tomorrow's economy; we look at the worrying prospect of peak phosphorus and uncover the green truth about tetrapak food cartons. To download the newsletter, log in and scroll to the bottom of the page...
… was five times the size of the nation’s GDP, ‘one way or another it doesn’t make sense …
In the last budget before the general election, Alistair Darling announced a series of measures that could have a positive environmental impact, including a £2 billion green investment bank
… sustainable businesses that don't make the GDP figures soar, but do provide jobs and glue …
Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by his own reckoning, a lone voice in the wilderness.
… very precisely, very specifically at its GDP. They tell you how under the IMF’s imposed structural adjustment plans Ghana’s GDP rose two per cent a year between 1987 and …