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Sustainability: What are the alternatives to economic growth?

News Published 11 Jan 2021 Last modified 09 Feb 2023

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Photo: © Jonathan Brinkhorst, Unsplash

How can societies and people prosper and grow without harming the environment and climate? Is it possible to implement the European Green Deal through social innovations that have little or no environmental impact? To broaden the sustainability debate, a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today, explores alternative ways of thinking about growth and progress.