The Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth recently tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM), asking: That this House welcomes the call made by President Michael D Higgins of Ireland, on 28th April 2023, to look beyond the current obsession with economic growth and rebalance economy, ecology and ethics. — Post by kultur.work| Limits To Growth
Welcome to the Summer 2023 edition of the APPG on Limits to Growth Newsletter, where we summarise the APPG’s recent activities and highlight some of the latest developments in postgrowth thinking and policymaking, in the UK and internationally.| Limits To Growth
On Thursday 15 June, members of the Lords debated the current performance of the NHS and innovation in the health service. The government is fixated on "growing the economy" and generating profits, instead of social innovation to deliver health, and other goods, for people. APPG member Natalie Bennett reflected on this as a speaker in the debate.| Limits To Growth
Between 15-17 May 2023 over 5,000 people came together to discuss the actualisation of a sustainable postgrowth future at a conference hosted by the European Parliament. The #BeyondGrowth event was a cross-party initiative by MEPs from five different political groups, organised in conjunction with over 60 partner organisations.| Limits To Growth
Highlighting the APPG’s activities over the last months, and round up the latest developments in postgrowth thinking and policymaking in the UK and abroad.| Limits To Growth
On 19 October 2022, the APPG joined with the Club of Rome in Portcullis House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth, and to mark the publication of the Club’s new book, Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity.| Limits To Growth
APPG members tabling 'reasoned amendment' to prevent the UK Government's Financial Services and Markets Bill from passing its second reading; on the basis that it creates a renewed "objective to promote growth and competitiveness, rather than making the creation of a wellbeing economy designed to foster long-term economic resilience and prosperity its overarching objective".| Limits To Growth
The 12th of August 2022 marked another step forward for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in its programme to inform understanding of economic, environmental and social progress more broadly than can be captured in traditional measures of the size of the UK economy in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).| Limits To Growth
Contribution to the Queen's Speech debates, 18 May 2022, from APPG vice-chair Clive Lewis MP, questioning the function and desirability of GDP growth as a measure of economic success.| Limits To Growth
In June this year, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir hosted the first Wellbeing Economy Forum in Reykjavík to discuss the interconnections between wellbeing and sustainability. The Forum included discussants from politics, science and civil society.| Limits To Growth