type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This contribution seeks to examine the prospects for tackling climate change in a world dominated by capitalist economies. Since climate change is a relatively new phenomenon, we have to review the successes and failures of such economies in addressing other...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>The urgency of the climate problem seems to require that stringent emissions reductions begin under the political economic institutions that currently exist. Any global climate treaty must, however, at least not make global inequality worse, and ideally should...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This contribution evaluates the geopolitical and technical issues involved in climate stabilization and discusses alternative technical paths towards the required emission reductions in the US, China and the world. There are no plausible scenarios in which...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>The climate crisis and the credit crisis have made the political issues surrounding investment and finance more critical than ever before. Proposals for ‘Green New Deals’ and the like — aimed at tackling both global warming and global recession — are...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability. The effort to push up the rate of growth by increasing obligations to repay financial debts is in direct conflict with the availability of exhaustible resources and with the capacity of waste...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Global climate change is perhaps the most serious problem the world faces. Despite its severity, mainstream economic approaches to addressing the problem fail to get to the root cause — the capitalist global economy — falling instead for ‘the Midas...</p>