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  • The history of caring for Future Generations

    This timeline plots the history of the movement to care for future generations, since ancient times to the present day.

  • Building back better?

    Assessing the EU's economic resilience in the era of the Recovery & Resilience Facility

  • A proposal for an Executive Vice-President for Future Generations

    Our priorities for a new Commissioner to embed long-term thinking

  • Security-orientated energy policy in Germany

    The ZOE-hosted Energy Independence Council has published a feasible strategy for financing the shift away from natural gas in Germany, even in light of recent cuts to the federal budget.

  • More quality of life, less consumption

    How can the German Federal Environment Agency promote sufficiency policy?

  • Securing future-fit jobs in the green transformation

    A policy framework for industrial policy

  • Our vision for a wellbeing economy in the EU: A discussion paper by the EU Wellbeing Economy Coalition

    A discussion paper by EU Wellbeing Economy Coalition for policymakers

  • By Disaster or by Design?

    Lessons from REPowerEU for crisis management policymaking processes

  • EU Wellbeing Economy Coalition: Vision statement

    A vision for an economic system focused on meeting the fundamental needs and rights of all

  • Linking EU fiscal rules to climate targets

    A proposal for a climate-linked extension of budgetary adjustment paths

  • Enabling the green and just transition

    A framework for policy processes equipped to manage tensions and trade-offs

  • Sustainability-linked Fiscal Leeway

    A proposal to make the granting of fiscal leeway dependent on the achievement of green targets

  • Mainstreaming wellbeing and sustainability in policymaking

    Technical and governance levers out of the institutional GDP lock-in

  • A 5-point plan for EU Industrial Policy

    Recommendations how to successfully speed-up green technologies whilst fostering socio-economic cohesion

  • Applying Economic Resilience to Fiscal Policy

    How fiscal policy can help increasing the EU's economic resilience

  • The Economic Resilience Index

    Assessing the ability of EU economies to thrive in times of change

  • Systemic transformation or status quo?

    Assessing the potential systemic transformation of EU Member States' energy and mobility sectors through their NRRPs

  • A framework for economic resilience

    Guiding economic policy through a social-ecological transition 

  • How to Talk with Policymakers About 1.5-Degree Lifestyles

    Developing a toolkit for communicating 1.5-degree lifestyles

  • New Fiscal Rules for the EU

    Assessing the EU's economic governance framework reform possibilities

  • Building Our Common Future

    Future prospects for the Network of Institutions for Future Generations (NIFG)

  • Mobility in a Carbon-Neutral Europe

    Reshaping Mobility Policy for Equitable 1.5 Degree Lifestlyes

  • Trade-off or tension: Can carbon be priced without risking economic competitiveness?

    ZOE Discussion Paper No. 9

  • Ensuring the Significance of "Do No Significant Harm"

    Shortfalls of the DNSH principle and recommendations for improvement

  • Defining resilience in economic policymaking

    Origins and current uses

  • Updating the EU’s fiscal rules (Part 2)

    Steering EU fiscal policy with an expenditure rule beyond GDP

  • Updating the EU’s fiscal rules (Part 1)

    How improving the EU’s potential output methodology can mitigate the risk of deepening recessions

  • Demand-side solutions to address energy shortages

    How the EU and Member States can boost energy savings through effective, socially balanced policy measures

  • International Examples of a Wellbeing Approach in Practice

    A case study of wellbeing policies for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands

  • Housing in a Climate-Neutral Europe

    Reshaping Housing Policy for Equitable 1.5-Degree Lifestyles

  • Equitable 1.5 Degree Lifestyles

    How socially fair policies can support the implementation of the Green Deal

  • Reducing Emissions through Equitable 1.5 Degree Lifestyles

    An Essential Plank in Bridging the Emissions Gap

  • Financing for a future-fit Europe

    Feasible and impactful proposals for a reform of the EU fiscal framework

  • Executive summary: A compass towards 2030

    Executive summary of the report

  • A compass towards 2030

    A proposal for an overarching beyond GDP monitoring framework for the EU

  • Inventory of EU indicators

    An inventory of over 450 indicators from 18 different policy processes in the EU

  • Fiscal Policy for a Thriving Europe

    An analysis of the feasibility and impact of proposals for reforming fiscal policy in the EU

  • Methodology of the RITC

    A methodology for assessing systemic change towards future-fit economies

  • A future-fit recovery?

    A sectoral analysis of practices for promoting systemic change in the NRRPs based on the Recovery Index for Transformative Change (RITC)

  • 8th Cohesion Report: Economic Convergence within the EU

    Feedback on the Roadmap for the 8th Cohesion Report

  • A coherent Green Deal

    Five steps to co-create policy coherence

  • 1.5 Degree Policy Mix

    Introducing sufficiency as a complementary strategy for achieving climate neutrality in the EU

  • Systemic change for a resilient Europe

    Sustainable transformation through the NRRPs

  • Towards a Resilience Doughnut

    Recommendations for operationalising and mainstreaming resilience

  • Free days for future

    The case for a simple yet astonishingly beneficial policy

  • Making welfare resilient

    Given that economic growth is no longer a sustainable solution for the challenges faced by the welfare state alternatives are explained applied to the Green Deal and the Just Transition.

  • Land value taxation

    How to ease housing markets, reduce land prices and support spatial and urban planning - at once.

  • Building a Resilient Economy

    Analysing options for systemic change to transform the world’s economic and financial systems after the pandemic.

  • The Emergence of Core-Periphery Structures in the European Union: a Complexity Perspective

    Polarization trends in the EU since the 1960s and their implications for policy.

  • Growth imperatives: Substantiating a contested concept

  • An offer you can’t refuse – Enhancing personal productivity through ‘efficiency consumption’

    Personal productivity (efficiency) is a relevant consumption motive.

  • Growth, Prosperity and the environment

    How can ecological and social indicators be better integrated into macroeconomic models?

  • Inequality dynamics, (unmet) aspirations and social protest

    The link between social protest and economic or social inequalities

  • Decoupling debunked

    Warum die Konzentration auf Ökoeffizienz nicht ausreicht, um dem Klimawandel zu begegnen

  • The contested concept of growth imperatives: Technology and the fear of stagnation

    Do ‘growth imperatives’ exist that make ‘growth policies’ ‘inescapable’?

  • An offer you can’t refuse

    Do firms and consumers both frequently acquire goods that increase their efficiency?

  • Growth Miracle or Endangered Development?

    Analysis and discussion of reasons for sustained growth rates in Dominican Republic

  • Growth imperatives: Resource use and accumulation as distortions

    Analysis of growth imperatives and new policies to deal with technological progress

  • Fear of stagnation? A review on growth imperatives

    Review of potential social and economic growth imperatives

  • Consistency and stability analysis of models of a monetary growth imperative

    Discussion and analysis of growth imperatives in the current monetary system

  • How imperative are the Joneses?

    Definition of growth imperatives & classification of socio-cultural mechanisms

  • Efficiency Consumption

    Theoretical justification and discussion of "efficiency consumption" as a measure of income securing

  • Publication series: Policy Pathways towards 1.5-Degree Lifestyles

    Policy briefs exploring how future-fit policy pathways for Europe can be created to meet the 1.5 degree scenario in the areas of food, mobility and housing.