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Snip summary	This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for economies to “move beyond GDP” as a measure of progress, warning that the world’s “existing accounting systems” were driving the planet towards disaster. His remar... Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? \| Greenhouse gas emissions \| The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/...mic-growth-carbon-emissions-impact-global-heating

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This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for economies to “move beyond GDP” as a measure of progress, warning that the world’s “existing accounting systems” were driving the planet towards disaster.
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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/...mic-growth-carbon-emissions-impact-global-heating

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His remarks echo an increasingly influential school of economics, known broadly as “post-growth”, that asks what was once unthinkable: will solving the climate crisis mean learning to live without constant expansion?

HTML	<p class="dcr-130mj7b">This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/global-economy-transformed-humanity-future-un-chief-antonio-guterres" data-link-name="in body link">called for economies to “move beyond GDP”</a> as a measure of progress, warning that the world’s “existing accounting systems” were driving the planet towards disaster.</p><p class="dcr-130mj7b">His remarks echo an increasingly influential school of economics, known broadly as “post-growth”, that asks what was once unthinkable: will solving the climate crisis mean learning to live without constant expansion?</p>

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<p class="dcr-130mj7b">This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/global-economy-transformed-humanity-future-un-chief-antonio-guterres" data-link-name="in body link">called for economies to “move beyond GDP”</a> as a measure of progress, warning that the world’s “existing accounting systems” were driving the planet towards disaster.</p><p class="dcr-130mj7b">His remarks echo an increasingly influential school of economics, known broadly as “post-growth”, that asks what was once unthinkable: will solving the climate crisis mean learning to live without constant expansion?</p>

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