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Valuing What Counts: Framework to Progress Beyond Gross Domestic Product
2023-06-06 (or before) in LinkedInGross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used benchmark to measure a countrys economic progress and the value of the goods and services it produces.
GDP also reflects a harmful anachronism at the heart of global policymaking:our economic models and measurements overlook many aspects that sustain life and contribute to human well-being, while perversely placing disproportionate value on activities that deplete the planet.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
What is GDP and how is it measured? - BBC News
2023-09-17 (or before) in The BBCA basic guide to how the economy is measured and why that calculation matters.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries
2023-09-05 (or before) in The LancetThe decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to be consistent with the Paris Agreement, then high-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future. To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvemen...
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | GDP | CO2 | Economic Growth
Valuing What Counts: Framework to Progress Beyond Gross Domestic Product
2023-06-06 (or before) in LinkedInGross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used benchmark to measure a countrys economic progress and the value of the goods and services it produces.
GDP also reflects a harmful anachronism at the heart of global policymaking:our economic models and measurements overlook many aspects that sustain life and contribute to human well-being, while perversely placing disproportionate value on activities that deplete the planet.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Why GDP doesn't work, and what Scotland should replace it with
2023-05-29 (or before) in The National | Scottish NewsLAST week the Beyond Growth Conference, the biggest European conference to discuss an alternative economic model, took place in Brussels. Over…
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Wellbeing economy - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
2023-05-12 (or before) in edm.parliament.ukThat this House welcomes the call made by President Michael D Higgins of Ireland on 28 April 2023 at a reception for the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change to look beyond the current obsession with economic growth and rebalance economy, ecology and ethics; notes that this call is well-aligned with the aims of the European Parliament’s examination of the Beyond Growth agenda; further notes that such a call has far-reaching implications for the teaching and practice of economics in which the obsession with perpetual growth has left society blinkered to the ecological catastrophe we now face; agrees with President Higgins...
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth | Economics
GrowthKills
2023-05-06 (or before) in Growth KillsTagged under: Economic Growth | GDP | Economics
Fixing unhealthy homes would hit GDP growth, but benefit families - report
2023-04-03 in RNZ - NZ News, Current Affairs, Audio On DemandNew research shows household incomes would increase as a result of a retrofit programme.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Can statisticians move beyond GDP?
2023-03-16 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesEvery month, and to much fanfare, the Office for National Statistics publishes its latest estimates of gross domestic product. GDP is rightly regarded as the mo
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Pursuing economic growth will kill us all in the end | Letter
2023-02-02 in The GuardianLetters: I risked prison to stand up against an system that will lead to ecological and societal collapse – we must look for alternative economic models, writes Zoe Cohen
Tagged under: Activism | GDP | Economics | Economic Growth | Collapse
World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken, reveals Swiss Re Institute's stress-test analysis | Swiss Re
2022-06-14 (or before) in Swiss Retbd
Tagged under: Climate Change | GDP | Economics | Economic Growth
Moving Beyond GDP: The Case for Wealth as a Core Measure of National Progress
2022-04-29 (or before) in Earth Negotiations Bulletin - International Institute for Sustainable DevelopmentDespite its frequent use as the main measure of progress, GDP fails to account for health, happiness, inequality, and environmental sustainability. An expert panel explored how a focus on wealth could inform policymaking in Africa—and how to make the shift.
Tagged under: Africa | GDP | Economic Growth | Health | Sustainability
The poverty of ‘economic growth’
2021-06-12 (or before) by in Al JazeeraSimplistic stories of GDP growth are blinding us to the social and ecological destruction it so often entails.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
The Tragedy of Growth
2021-03-06 (or before) in Positive Money - Making money and banking work for societyTo protect wellbeing and avoid ecological disaster we must abandon GDP growth and transform our economic system Critiques of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of economic progress are widespread. However ‘beyond GDP’ narratives often seek to complement the dominant indicator with other measures of progress, aiming for ‘inclusive’ or ‘green’ growth, instead of […]
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds
2020-10-12 in The GuardianTrillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re report
Tagged under: GDP | Insurance | Wildlife | Economic Growth | Collapse
GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters
2020-07-29 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanIt’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Britons want quality of life indicators to take priority over economy
2020-05-10 in The GuardianPolls finds majority would like ministers to prioritise health and wellbeing over GDP during coronavirus crisis
Tagged under: GDP | Economics | Economic Growth | Health
Global economic growth will take big hit due to loss of nature
2020-02-12 by Fiona Harvey in The GuardianDamage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns
Tagged under: Animal Populations | Biodiversity Loss | Natural World | Economics | GDP | Fish | Economic Growth | Trees
Nicola Sturgeon: Wellbeing as important as economic growth - BBC News
2020-01-24 (or before) in BBCIn a speech later, Ms Sturgeon will say Scotland is creating an economy where "collective wellbeing" is as fundamental as GDP.
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters | Joseph Stiglitz
2019-11-24 by Joseph Stiglitz in The GuardianThe way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | GDP | Economic Growth
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