While the 2016 Paris Agreement is in many ways an important attainment with the potential to represent a milestone in humanity's path towards sustainable development, and avoid thus a potential calamitous and destructive future, the achievement of the goals set in the agreement is a long way...

In view of the sizeable climate change challenge, we need a clean innovation machine operating at full speed. Beyond the supply of public clean R&D infrastructure and clean public purchases, the development and adoption of new clean technologies by the private sector needs to be assured to...

As governments spend unprecedented sums of public money on pandemic related rescue and recovery measures, while humankind is facing mounting long-term challenges - and above all the climate crisis -, the question whether and to what extent COVID-19 recovery programmes contribute to countries'...

Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 -Sustainable Growth, Welfare and Short-termism -- Chapter 3 - Non-Sustainable Growth, Resource Extraction, and Boom-Bust Cycles -- Chapter 4 - Fossil Fuel Resources, Environment and Climate Change -- Chapter 5 - Limits on the Extraction of Fossil Fuels,-...