1.5°C 'degrowth' scenarios suggest need for new mitigation pathways

1.5°C 'degrowth' scenarios suggest need for new mitigation pathways

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210511081210.htm

Degrowth focuses on the global North and is defined as an equitable, democratic reduction in energy and material use while maintaining wellbeing. A decline in GDP is accepted as a likely outcome of this transition.

The new modelling by the University of Sydney and ETH Zürich includes high growth/technological change and scenarios summarised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a comparison to degrowth pathways. It shows that by combining far-reaching social change focused on sufficiency as well as technological improvements, net-zero carbon emissions can be more easily achieved technologically.