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Category: Climate Change

Climate Change

The global green shift

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 17/01/2023 Posted in Climate Change, Economic Growth, Innovation, Renewable Energy

Economic development is a process of constant change, driven by innovation. Such changes  challenge the positions of existing firms, forcing them to adapt, but also provide opportunities that firms of all types, including new entrepreneurial ventures, may exploit. A similar …

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Paths to a zero-emission world

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 08/11/2020 Posted in Climate Change, Renewable Energy

To avoid the most negative effects of climate change scientists say that temperature increase compared to preindustrial times needs to be restricted to 1,5 degrees, most of which has already occurred (IPCC 2018). The main reason for these temperature increases …

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On Fire. The Burning Case for a Green, New Deal

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 08/06/2020 Posted in Climate Change

This book contains a series of talks and essays by the author and journalist Naomi Klein written during the last decade (including an introduction and an epilogue written especially for this volume). Klein writes passionately about the implications of global …

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A Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 01/05/2020 Posted in Climate Change

The Green New Deal for Europe is a campaign for a swift, just, and democratic transition to a sustainable Europe founded in 2019 by the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25), an organization linked to former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. …

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The case for the green new deal

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 23/04/2020 Posted in Climate Change

As Ann Pettifor explains, the term “new deal” dates back to the Roosevelt-administration’s attempt to use the full force of the US government to combat unemployment and revive the economy during the crisis of the 1930s. A central element in the …

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What we need to do now

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 30/03/2020 Posted in Climate Change

Chris Goodall is an English economist and writer who previously has authored several books on climate change and energy transitions, including the highly readable “The Switch” a few years back. The present book is as the title indicates a primer …

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