Central bank independence may need rethinking in the face of climate change, argue economists @geoffmann.bsky.social & @annpettifor.bsky.social. “Central bankers need to understand that they are political actors, not technical actors.” https://greencb.co/4rZg9H5 #CentralBank #ClimateFinance

Hickel (@jasonhickel.bsky.social) answers the horizontalists: degrowth needs more than ZADs & assemblies to transform the economy. His response on democratic ecosocialism, delinking & Global South liberation. Read his full text 👇

New on @degrowthinfo.bsky.social! 🚨 @jasonhickel.bsky.social responds to an earlier piece we published in which Nelson, Liegey and Leahy critiqued his understanding of #degrowth based on comments from a @the-breakdown.bsky.social interview. Read it here: degrowth.info/en/blog/on-d...

What would degrowth look like in practice? Degrowth London have launched a new interactive web platform which brings to life a vision for the city's future 🌇 Its a great imaginative resource and really fun to explore! explore.degrowthlondon.org

Important arguments from @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social and @james7jackson.bsky.social of @granthamlse.bsky.social which align with those in our recent (and first) East and Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard, which China/the PBoC topped (1/4)

In a new article, Professor Jasper Kenter explains how traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/3v7j7rbh #economics #article #GlobalCrisis

"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational" 🤡🤡

I know there is some good stuff out there but the substackification of political analysis and commentary kind of depresses me. Cant help but think it speaks to (and possibly exacerbates?) wider social fragmentation and individualism.

This is precisely why (a) ESG has always been problematic by turning public policy issues into profit-making ventures & (b) credit guidance is necessary to direct commercial bank and non-bank financial sector finance toward public purpose (Screenshot from R. Armstrong’s FT “Unhedged” newsletter)

💡New! As the ESRC, the UK’s leading social science funder, moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, ImogenHamilton-Jones and Catarina Heeckt defend the academic legitimacy and societal relevance of post-growth thinking. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Is degrowth a movement, or a concept, or both? We always like to host dialogues on @degrowthinfo.bsky.social! Get in touch if you have thoughts

🚨 Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla. Communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed. This is an attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and int'l institutions to demand their immediate safety and release

Great to see critique of UK govt's 'growth at all costs' approach. However @graceblakeley.substack.com's comment that degrowth=recession shows a total misunderstanding of the concept. Degrowth isn't 'less of the same', its a process of transformation towards a fundamentally different economic system

Central banks hold immense power to guide finance away from ecologically destructive industries and towards green sectors. They often neglect these capacities due to flawed concerns around market-neutrality. Yet central banks have used credit guidance policies to respond to crises in the past.

"The private sector, left to its own devices and profit-motives, is not delivering the scale or type of investment needed to address the escalating and multi-dimensional ecological crisis." Our @joefherb.bsky.social on why we need central banks to step up in Edie. www.edie.net/when-it-come...

🚨 NEW 🚨 Today we launched our brand new report: The East & Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard This ranks the progress of central banks & financial regulators of 13 countries towards greening their financial system. But why this region? 🧵

"Countries with greater economic power and larger historical contributions to environmental degradation should lead the charge here." Fantastic coverage of our first ever East and Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard in The Korea Times 👏 www.koreatimes.co.kr/economy/2025...

The first East and Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard by our partner @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social is here - analysing green monetary and financial regulation policies in @aseantoday.bsky.social, China 🇨🇳, Japan 🇯🇵 & South Korea 🇰🇷

Starting next year, the ECB will take climate risks into account when handing out loans – not just financial risks. Polluting companies will therefore pay more interest. But for a giant like Shell, this will make little difference: the extra costs are negligible compared to its profits.

As climate risks mount, less developed countries in @aseantoday.bsky.social‬ need to adopt green central banking policies, as shown by the East & Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard—but they need support from their richer neighbours. 🤝

With less than a week to go until the launch of our East & Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard, we wanted to spotlight the incredible experts we have joining our webinar 🧵 But before that - don’t miss out on your place! Register now 👇

Abolish the OBR

About time. Seems like Novara have been on a journey over the years - from ridiculing degrowth, to having Jason on and Aaron 'agreeing with everything' in Less is More

As the degrowth.info collective, we fully endorse the statement and urge the wider degrowth community and aligned friends and colleagues to do the same and unite behind its calls to action. Read full statement at our website👇 #freePalestine

THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.

Two of our members went to Oslo for the 2025 International Degrowth Conference and got back with some keen reflections about it. Between experimental cabarets, productive tensions, and debates on delinking, the conference raised urgent questions: how do we build genuinely just postgrowth futures?

Join @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social and @greencb.bsky.social for the launch of our East and Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard 👇 📅Weds 10th September ⏰ 9am-10:30am BST / 4pm-5:30pm MYT / 5pm-6:30pm JST 🖥️ Zoom ➡️Find out more and register:

We wrote a reflection on the 2025 International #Degrowth and Ecological Economics Conference, for those who want an insight into some of the goings on! degrowth.info/en/blog/conv...

As tariffs and the dollar grab headlines once again, join us for our webinar 👇 'A World Beyond the Dollar? Making sense of a changing currency landscape' 💵 Register to join 👉 bit.ly/4ovRqbG 🗓️ Thurs 21st August ⏰ 6-7pm BST 🖥️ Zoom

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century” To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter

Somewhat staggering in 2025 to see politicians claiming an enlightened approach "beyond left or right". It's exactly this approach that has in the past 10 years seen left and green parties all over Europe drift into institutionalised centrism - one thing that is almost universally despised

"It feels like groundhog day. The 2008 crash and what followed should have been a very strong lesson to everybody in not completely letting the financial services sector off its leash." @chaitanyakumar.bsky.social on Reeves' plans to cut red tape for City firms www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Centrist economists - like the UK government - are obsessed with the hammer of growth, and see every problem as a nail. We need to move beyond this failed orthodoxy. Some responses to Martin Wolf’s piece in the FT today 🧵: www.ft.com/content/8a49...

Outfit of criminal who should be in the Hague making ethnic cleansing plans with genocidial regime shock. on.ft.com/404IEXK

Parliament in a nutshell: Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote.. Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists. Westminster is broken.

Another screening of the BBC degrowth documentary in London! This time in Peckham on Weds 23rd July, organised by Aylesham Community Action. The director Alvaro will be there for a Q and A. Follow link to register. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-scree...

Had a brilliant week at the international #degrowth and ecological economics conference in Oslo, meeting familiar faces and new ones, presenting a critique of the UK govt's financialised growth drive on behalf of @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social, and seeing the unbelievable degrowth cabaret! 🐌

Great short explainer on green credit guidance, which shares many of the recommendations we make in @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social's Green Central Banking Scorecard

📝The final blog in my three-part series on #growth is online now 🏦Part three discusses Reeves' move away from 'Securonomics', the government's drive for financialised growth, and why it won't deliver wellbeing ➕Read all three parts at the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social website #postgrowth #degrowth

📝Part 2 of my blog series on growth is out now at @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social 📉Having discussed social and environmental harms of growth in part 1, this one focuses on the decreasing feasibility of growth in the current economic context positivemoney.org/uk/update/th... #degrowth #postgrowth

14,000 babies could die in 48 hours without aid. That’s the warning from the UN. This is genocide in real time and Keir Starmer's government is complicit. Still arming Israel and running surveillance flights. No sanctions or expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador. Shame on them.

The gall of the UK govt, having called a genocide 'self-defense' and allowed thousands of weapons to be supplied to Israel

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

📝I have a new blog series on the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social website offering a critical analysis of #growth, the UK govt's self-declared "obsession" 🌍Part 1 of 3 is out now, discussing how growth impacts ecological breakdown and inequality positivemoney.org/uk/update/th... #postgrowth #degrowth

Degrowth London is organising a solidarity fundraiser for @iwgbunion.bsky.social! Join us at Pelican House on 31st May for food, music, drinks, and community building ✊ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solidarity...

BREAKING 🇵🇸 The UK has sent more than 160,000 munitions to Israel since October 2023. Today, a groundbreaking new report from the PI, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Workers For A Free Palestine reveals the extraordinary scale of UK arms exports to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide.

The United Nations' food stocks for families in Gaza depleted a week ago. Children are being deliberately starved by Israel, and it is all being done openly.

So the UK now has a "Labour" government that is simultaneously supporting a genocide in Palestine, bombing Yemen, imprisoning climate protestors, and imposing austerity on their own citizens. Got it 👍