I want to share my new publication with you “Ireland's Carbon Emission Trends and Degrowth Opportunities: Based on Modified Tapio - LMDI Model”it pointed out the important role of material consumption and selective degrowth approach should be taken into account. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning.

The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.

We need to take into account the opportunity cost of technological progress, also of economic growth!

Even though there has been a relative decoupling between economic growth and carbon emissions in some countries in the Global North, this has not occurred on a global scale. What we need is not just a relative decoupling, but an absolute decoupling, that is, an absolute reduction in carbon emissions

Neo-classical economics always regards economic growth as the top priority. People tend to believe that a larger pie is easier to divide than a smaller one. The consequence of this "growth worship" is that people fail to notice the widening gap between what they get and what others get.

The graph is at globalinequality.org/global-incom..., where you can also explore other metrics: pre-tax income, post-tax income, wealth, all in either MER or PPP, with data from the excellent World Inequality Database.

I’ve been looking into Ireland’s investment share by government and businesses in the green transition, and the numbers are truly alarming.

Yesterday I delivered a pre of Ireland’s emission trends and degrowth opportunity, the main sight is the technological progress could help the weak decoupling but the economy and population scale could hinder the strong decoupling. Many thanks for this opportunity to show my research! @ucc.ie

The increase of clean energy use is likely to be used to meet the growing energy consumption rather than replace the original fossil energy. It should be alert about whether the rate of increase in energy demand exceeds the rate of clean energy replacing fossil energy.

Hi all！My name is Tianning Zhao, a PhD student in @ucc.ie and I hold MSc in ecological economics from @envleeds.bsky.social .
My research focus on ecological economics, energy economics and degrowth🌍.
I hope to talk more with you all here! Let’s fight for our sustainable future.