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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth Skip to content Limits To Growth APPG on Limits to Growth Menu ABOUT The Debate PUBLICATIONS Briefing: Understanding the ‘New Normal’ Briefing: Precautionary Principle Response: Spring Budget 2017 Review: Limits Revisited LINKS Basic Literature Related APPGs EVENTS NEWS RESEARCH Home Welcome to the website of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth, a platform for cross-party dialogue on economic growth in a time of environmental and social transition. Our aims are: to create the space for cross-party dialogue on environmental and social limits to growth; to assess the vestige for such limits, identify the risks and build support for towardly responses; and to contribute to the international debate on redefining prosperity. To receive regular updates via email, subscribe to the CUSP newsletter. We moreover share our news on Twitter and Facebook. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Well-nighThe aim of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth is to provide a new platform for cross-party dialogue on economic growth in a time of environmental and social transition. The APPG is chaired by Caroline Lucas MP (Green) and co-chaired by Daniel Zeichner MP (Labour), Kevin Hollinrake (Conservatives) and Alan Whitehead (Labour). Its principal aims are: to create the space for cross-party dialogue on specific economic risks related to environmental and social limits; to assess the vestige for such limits, identify the risks and build support for towardly responses; and to contribute to the international debate on redefining prosperity and measures of growth. The full membership of the APPG includes the pursuit parliamentarians: Sir Peter Bottomley MP (Conservative) Ruth Cadbury MP (Labour) Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP (Lib Dem) Lord Deben (Conservative) Barry Gardiner MP (Labour) Roger Godsiff MP (Labour) Wera Hobhouse MP (Lib Dem) Kevin Hollinrake MP (Conservative) Lord Howarth (Labour) Baroness Jones (Green) Gerald Jones MP (Labour) Stephen Kinnock MP (Labour) Clive Lewis MP (Labour) Jonathan Lord MP (Conservative) Caroline Lucas MP (Green) Lord Oxburgh (Crossbench) Lord Puttnam (Labour) Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour) Liz Saville Roberts MP (Plaid Cymru) Lord Skidelsky (Crossbench) Jo Swinson MP (Lib Dem) Alison Thewliss MP (SNP) Liz Twist MP (Labour) Lord Turner (Crossbench) Alan Whitehead MP (Labour) Baroness Worthington Daniel Zeichner MP (Labour)   The APPG on Limits to Growth is an officially recognised cross-party group of MPs and Lords in the UK Parliament. The membership of the group is restricted to Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The secretariat for the APPG on Limits to Growth is provided by the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey. If you would like to be kept informed well-nigh the group’s activities, please subscribe to the CUSP mailing list or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We want to hear from you – please write us at appg@cusp.ac.uk, or enter the discussion on our Limits Revisited page.   Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Publications Understanding the ‘New Normal’—The Challenge of Secular Stagnation | An Economy That Works,RundownPaper No 1 This first in our series of rundown papers on towers An Economy That Works explores the underlying miracle of ‘secular stagnation’ – a long-term ripen in the rate of growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The paper examines the evidence, explores the causes and discusses the implications of what some now undeniability the ‘new normal’. Read more. The Precautionary Principle | Breakfast Briefing, 25 Oct 2017 Uncertainties over which EU environmentally-related policies are likely to be culled in the process and produce of the ‘Great Repeal Bill’ should be rationalization for concern regarding the long term health of both humans and the ecosystems on which we all depend. The APPG rundown focuses upon the risk to the viability of Precautionary Principle from the lengthy and involved process of repatriation of EU Law. The Precautionary Principle offers a comprehensive defence versus policies which favour ‘growth’ at the forfeit of potentially irreversible or catastrophic risk. The Precautionary Principle remains on the frontline of the legal-environmental defence and should not be downgraded, but unquestionably if possible enhanced. More information on the rundown page. Budget Response | Spring 2017 Budgets are routinely analysed by people who believe there is nothing problematic well-nigh economic growth.  Forecast rates of GDP growth play a key role in the Budget calculations, and Budgets are praised or criticised  based on the effect they are deemed to have on future growth. In our view, such wringer misses a critical  speciality of the trendy debate: namely the prospect that there may be environmental, social and  secular limits to economic growth. In relation to the Budget Statement released by the Chancellor on 8th  March 2017, we would make the  pursuit remarks... Read increasingly Limits Revisited: A Review of the Limits to Growth Debate | April 2016 Four and a half decades without the Club of Rome published its landmark report on Limits to Growth, the study remains hair-trigger to our understanding of economic prosperity. This new review of the Limits debate has been written to mark the launch of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Limits to Growth. It outlines the contents of the Club of Rome’s report, traces the history of responses to it and dispels some of the myths surrounding it. As Prof Tim Jackson summarises the report in this twin CUSP blog, if the Club of Rome is right, the next few decades are decisive: One of the most important lessons from the study is that early responses are veritably vital as limits are approached. Faced with these challenges, there is moreover unmistakably a premium on creating political space for transpiration and developing positive narratives of progress. A part of the aim of the APPG is create that space. Read increasingly Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) EVENTS Social Limits to Growth—Implications for Sustainable Prosperity | Evening debate, 13 Nov 2017 In Autumn 2017, CUSP and the APPG on Limits to Growth hosted a debate to mark the 40th Anniversary of Fred Hirsch’s ‘The Social Limits to Growth’.Increasinglythan 100 people joined us for this timely discussion on Hirsch’s challenging wringer and its relevance today. The panel discussion was chaired by Caroline Lucas MP and Tim Jackson, with speakers including Lord Robert Skidelsky, Professor Donald Hirsch (son of Fred Hirsch) and Professor Diane Coyle.Increasinglyinformation on the event page. The end of growth? | Evening debate, 28 Nov 2016 On Monday the 28th November 2016 we hosted Jørgen Randers, Kate Raworth, Federico Demaria and Graeme Maxton for an evening debate at the House of Commons, chaired by Caroline Lucas MP and Tim Jackson.Increasinglyinformation on the event page. Limits to Growth or Opportunities for Prosperity? | APPG Launch Event CC-BY-NC-ND :: Davide Natalini, Aaron Vantsintjan, Linda Gessner (from left) On 19th April 2016, we held our inaugural event Limits to Growth or Opportunities for Prosperity? at the House of Commons, with current Co-Chair of the Club of Rome, Anders Wijkman, as our keynote speaker. The event moreover marked the launch of Limits Revisited – a new review of the limits debate vicarious specifically for the APPG. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Links Post-Growth Challenge The secretariat for the APPG on Limits to Growth is provided by the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), an internationally leading research organisation, defended to tackling the ‘Post-Growth Challenge‘. A list of selected links to recent CUSP research in the field can be accessed on the post-growth theme page. Related APPGs People interested in our work might moreover be interested in the work of related cross-party groups: a list of website links can be accessed on the ‘Related APPGs’ page. Literature The Limits to Growth debate goes when to the 1970s. A list of landmark literature in the field can be accessed on our ‘Literature‘ page.     Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) REGISTERED OFFICE Caroline Lucas MP House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Tel: 020 7219 7025 Email: caroline.lucas.mp@parliament.uk The APPG’s full parliamentary register can be found here. Public Enquiry Point The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity acts as the secretariat for the APPG on Limits to Growth. Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity University of Surrey Guildford GU2 7XH Email: appg@cusp.ac.uk APPG on Twitter APPG on Twitter CUSP APPG RSS feed Privacy Notice This site uses cookies: Find out more.OK, thanks.