Developing sustainable degrowth futures to meet ambitious climate targets. This project aims to explore future degrowth pathways where Australia aligns its greenhouse gas emissions with a 1.5°C climat

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Developing sustainable degrowth futures to meet ambitious climate targets. This project aims to explore future degrowth pathways where Australia aligns its greenhouse gas emissions with a 1.5°C climate target while also improving wellbeing. By developing innovative modeling techniques, it will create a new interdisciplinary research stream in industrial ecology. The project will generate significant new knowledge to reveal how public provisioning, sufficiency, universal basic services and other societal reforms can enable Australians to experience well-being in a downscaled, environmentally sustainable economy. Expected outcomes include a framework for investigating robust degrowth climate mitigation scenarios. The project directly benefits Australia’s commitment to Net Zero and the Sustainable Development Goals.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4011 - Environmental Engineering. Lead: Prof Manfred Lenzen