The Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation

For governments and authorities to serve citizens well, we believe they need access to a broad spectrum of reliable sources of advice. This is especially true when crafting policy at a systemic level. The Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation has been in operation since 1995 to build knowledge of how economic policy can foster and drive [...]

The price mechanism does not provide perfect information and does not necessarily lead to a perfectly efficient distribution of resources.  Many argue that the low cost of externalizing pollution to the community is leading us to create a fossil-dependent infrastructure that will be obsolete before it has paid for itself.
This briefing explores the arguments for and against the price mechanism [...]

A recent report from The Nordic Council of Ministers ( title: Flexible emission fees - An incentive for driving sustainable production and consumption) is optimistic that growth and environmental goals can be reconciled. If the conclusions of the report can be implemented, it could set a new direction towards sustainable development.
The starting point for the investigation [...]

Recent research supports the conclusions of a controversial environmental study released 40 years ago: The world is on track for disaster. So says Australian physicist Graham Turner, who revisited perhaps the most groundbreaking academic work of the 1970s,The Limits to Growth.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html#ixzz1rH98mI3h

Traffic congestion charges have been hailed as a success in many cities. For the people who appreciate having less cars around, they work well, and for the people with cars who want to get around in the city, the fee is worth it as travel times are reduced. These charges are already flexible, as they are [...]

This video lists over 20 ready-to go solutions to reducing carbon emissions. They are waiting for the economy. This gives us hope that once flexible fees are introduced a rapid transformation can start.

Transportation without Oil: 23 Steps to a Sustainable Energy Future from BC Sustainable Energy on Vimeo.

One of the more recent challengers to the GDP (growth) consensus was Robert F Kennedy.
RFK’s speech was forty-four years ago yesterday.
On 18 March 1968, RFK directly challenged growth and the use of GDP as a barometer of success for nations in his University of Kansas speech:
“Too much and for too long, we seemed to have [...]

Oscar Kjellberg skriver:
Allt fler människor ifrågasätter oändlig ekonomisk tillväxt. Kan ekonomin växa i all evighet? Är det önskvärt? Finns det energi och andra naturresurser så det räcker? Vad händer med miljön och klimatet? Många hoppas på fortsatt tillväxt kombinerad med en frikoppling (decoupling) av miljöpåverkan och koldioxidutsläpp från den ökade ekonomiska aktiviteten. Om inte frikopplingen kan rädda oss [...]

“Lack of cheap energy will undermine economic growth - decoupling is  impossible,” says  economic analyst and writer Nicole Foss. The whole debate on decoupling, energy effectiveness and energy intensity etc., is complex and needs a lot of research.  As a starting point, here is a video of Nicole speaking in Stockholm.

“An Economic Policy for Robust Sustainable Recovery” is a condensed description of economic measures proposed for a robust recovery of ailing European economies. The principles of the proposed measures are based on the more comprehensive paper “An Economic Paradigm for Robust Sustainable Progress”. The following condensed document is aimed primarily at experts in the field of macroeconomics and is a guide to new [...]

Writing in the British newspaper, the Telegraph, today, Sir Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin  Group, says
Business as usual is wrecking our planet. Resources are being used up. Air, sea and land are heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation, or because they cannot afford life-saving medicine. Nearly half of [...]