05 Oct Romain Mauger presents (online) on Energy Commons & Degrowth at University of Groningen, Netherlands
On the 19th of September 2025, Dr. Mauger participated online to the workshop entitled: “A Research Agenda for Energy Commons Law”. This workshop organised by Prof Björn Hoops gathered dozens of academics to reflect on the legal frameworks pertaining to energy commons (or the measures which should be implemented to facilitate their creation and management).
On this occasion, Romain Mauger was invited to deliver a keynote presentation on “Energy Commons & Degrowth”. It was the occasion to stress the links between degrowth and the commons in general and more specifically between degrowth and energy communities.
Indeed, such communities may allow for ambitious local actions embedding degrowth practices (such as decarbonization of housing and transportation, spreading information about energy consumption reduction, creating democratic spaces for the management of energy-related commons, etc.). We need more of these energy communities and at the same time more radicale ones.
