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  • LCD has to respect the limits of growth, as we live on a finite planet with limited resources. Economic growth as such does not necessarily lead to improvements of the income and living conditions of the poor and disadvantaged. High-income and already some middle-income countries have exceeded the limits. Improved technologies can provide more room for manoeuvre, but they cannot completely remove these limits. Technologies, including renewable energy installations, are always impacting the environment and the climate.

    In the light of planetary boundaries and the limits of growth and the need to increasing welfare the distribution of resources should form part of a low carbon economy.

     

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