Sustainable development has been the focus of all the contemporary climate negotiations. All the environmental agreements and media releases mention the words “sustainable development”, however the COP22, as many other socio-political arenas, are rooted on the definition of economic growth as the route to development. Article 10.5 of the Paris Agreement set out that “Accelerating,…
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An opportunity for “Generation Europe XXI” in (re)claiming public spaces in Europe – Degrowth Perspectives
The European youth deals with numerous challenges: economic crisis, environmental crisis, migratory crisis, democratic crisis… If we consider these crises as structuring factors of the European youth, it is a question of wondering about its capacities in (re)claim the European public places. According to a recent study, we have to admit that in France, 71…
After the development
“Development” is a term used in biology to express such things as the blooming of flowers. Its sense of acquiring material prosperity, sense that is now the most obvious to us, was born a bit more than fifty years ago. The inventor of this notion is Harry Truman, in his 1949 speech on the ***. During…
Statement of the Bike+10 project
In September the World Summit on Sustainability and Development (WSSD) will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ten years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders will come together again to discuss the state of the world. We, the young people participating in Bike+10, from 8 different European countries with diverse cultures…
Did you know that Europe has east too?
This time Federation of Young European Greens made it different and brought energy for sustainable development to Eastern Europe, to the Balkans. From 15th to 21st of July around 34 young greens gathered in green paradise, Oplenac, hill nearby town Topola in central Serbia. Reason? To evaluate process of sustainable development from Rio summit in…