Sumários
Debate about growth and post-growth
5 novembro 2026, 14:30 • Helena Lopes
Two groups of students presented opposing arguments. Group A: green growth is feasible; Group B: degrowth is necessary.
Each group presented arguments that the other group rebutted.
A discussion took place between the groups and then with the whole class.
Degrowth, post-growth: feasibility and dilemmas
4 novembro 2026, 13:00 • Helena Lopes
The promises unkept by growth
Costs of ecological inaction
Technological fixes: too slow, too uncertain, just shift problems
Can a non-growing economy be stable?
Selective degrowth; less but bewtter
Green growth: possible and necessary?
29 outubro 2026, 14:30 • Helena Lopes
Green growth is necessary: ageing societies, poor countries need to grow
Feasibility: green investments (renewable energies, electrification, industrial restructuring) create growth and jobs
Green occupations: shortages, quality
Backlash and recalibration: from the EU Green Deal to Clean Industrial Deal
Economic growth and ecological outcomes
28 outubro 2026, 13:00 • Helena Lopes
Material and qualitative well-being
Coupling, relative and absolute decoupling between GDP, material extraction and CO2 emissions
Pollution, waste, sink capacity and AI's footprint
Development and the Global South
15 outubro 2026, 14:30 • Cristina Maria Paixão de Sousa
The Sustainability Dilemma
North-South Divide
Sustainability Transitions in the Global South