Degrowth: strategies and challenges for a just transition

Despite massive national and international efforts on different platforms, we are still far away from our targets in the fight with the climate change. Degrowth, reducing of energy and resource use in high-income economies to enable decarbonization and reverse other forms of ecological breakdown while reducing inequality and improving social outcomes, has emerged as an alternative method suggested by some scholars and international institutions. It is a powerful mitigation strategy that reduced the effects of climate change while focusing on sufficiency, democracy and human wellbeing.