“None of the European policy instruments have sufficient measures on sobriety”. At the Beyond Growth conference in the European Parliament on 16 May, Yamina Saheb, energy and climate policy expert and lead author at the IPCC, called on the EU to give greater consideration to sufficiency policies.
This is a necessity that no European measure can meet: “We have advocated for technological solutions, leaving aside the concept of sobriety, to address the climate crisis”. But “we know...