The paper "Green Growth Unravelled" challenges everyone who got too comfortable in believing a green growth myth which is simply based on eco-efficiency and technological innovations. It explores the inherent contradictions of the concept by addressing the question how increases in productivity may be defeated or even outwighed by higher total consumption rates - known as the "rebound effect".
Although the causal link between increased energy productivity and increased demand was identified back in 1865 and has been discussed in the economic sciences since 1980, rebound effects are still ignored in the majority of energy and climate studies and policies (IPCC, IEA).
During the German National Resources Forum, Dr. Hermann E. Ott (German MP, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and member of the Study Commission on Growth, Wellbeing and Quality of Life) highlighted that he had for a long time not realized the implications of the rebound effect. Its significance has been the main finding of his work in the Study Commission. He recommends reading "Green Growth Unravelled" and finds its clarity striking and of high significance for all further discussions.
Green Growth Unravelled
Editor: Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Author: Timan Santarius
Date of publication: October 2012
Pages: 22
Free of charge
Download here: http://www.boell.de/ecology/resources/resource-governance-ecology-green-growth-rebound-effect-15794.html
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