The 16th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference (3 Days online)
Biodiversity, Climate Change and social justice and economics in a pandemic age. Equity in a caring sharing, inclusive economy is the price of survival
Call for Papers, speakers, workshops, cutting edge ideas, philosophy for survival of people, other species, the planet, civilisation, biodiversity, human health
Email info@greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk to make contact.
The conference will feature our work on climate in preparation for the CoP 15 Biodiversity IPBES United Nations Conference in Kunming, China and
COP26 Climate Change United Nations Conference in Glasgow Uk with our delegation, loads of climate action, our official side events and official exhibition stands, our Green Hub Events, our training courses, our climate feminist ambassadors and much more
The economics of survival
Supply chains as the vectors of corruption
Walking the talk on diversity and inclusions
The Age of Stupid is well and truly upon us- how do we get out of it?
A human economy that doesn’t destroy but nurtures and rebuilds and rewilds- how do we do it?
Rethinking the Human -can we do it in time- ?
Stopping runaway climate change. Using human ingenuity to tackle ourselves and our ghastly mistakes- can we turn ourselves around in time?
Examining the science of climate and biodiversity and life
Air, water, soil, ice- respect reinstalled.
Understanding who matters in society.
Pyschology of power corruption and oligopolies, why half the worlds value is in the hands of a few men -pyschopathy and exploitation at the heart of our world view and civilisation -time to stop and take stop –
Gender, intersectionality and matrifocal leadership -what does it mean -what do we need to change?
Follow the leader- the pyschopaths in the boardroom and in politics- time to change what we views as true leadership.
Rebalancing the gender inequality- and the species inequality. Sitting back down and taking our real place in nature.
Come and join us for 3 lively days –
Change the world for the better- for those who really care and really want to change things.
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The three day Green Economics Conference will host a wide range of speakers from across the world, delivering presentations on a variety of topics from wherever they are, including on responses to the latest challenges.
Day 1 Progamme Economics, Economy, Green Deals, Build Back Better- Economics Futures in the Pandemic Age..Corruption green selfishness- is this the epitaph of the human species or can we do much better much more quickly?
Day 2 Environmental Perspectives 2021 The Time of Biodiversity and Climate Action and Recalibration of our entire role in the universe. Preparing for the 2 big United Nations Conferences in 2021. This day is open to people to attend in person -if you register for this and we will discuss with your our covid safety measures in place. It is also available on line for everyone.
Day 3 Social Perspectives in 2021. Caring for others, our own role in the pandemic, equality, inclusion, caring sharing and supporting each other. Theories of other, and ethics for the 3rd millenium. Assessing how to achieve the SDGs. Our survival, our recovery, our well being.
Mental health, social prescribing, recovery in nature.
Extinction, survival, archaology, historical records, species, Pandemic, health, vacine – no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Debates, experts, workshops, campaigns, research. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet.
Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? Or do we want well-being and a work life balance exploring the cultural impacts in shaping a new human beyond homo economicus.
Smart Cities, smart women, smart lives? Young peoples futures, older people care, indigenous peoples, we are all one humanity. Our future is their future. We must work together.
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8.00-9.00 am uk time -Technical connection session
Programme Day 1
9.0 0-9.30 UK time-Introduction and welcome to the conference
Principles of Green Economics, Green Economy and the Green New Deal-? Global Reset, The Great Reset, Build Back Better. How are they constructed- what are their founding ideas and philosophies. How do they affect behaviours.?
What are our values today in a covid and warming world with mass extinctions and increasing inequality? -Values, Valuation and Valuing -in 2021- what counts, what adds up, what matters, what is truth, what is science- what is right- what is ethical, what do we do about those who have been left behind ?
9.30-9.45 Short Break
Opening Plenary 9.45-10.45 am uk time
Keynote speakers New Structures of the Global Economy
The Emerging economy of revitalised international institutions-the United Nations and the World Health Organisation
The role of the state-is now expanding after a period of contraction and the role of the debt- Keynesism or mismanagement? The neo liberal narrative is about mismanagement.?
How do we save the benevolent state -privatisation -enclosure a terrible denoument of capitalism -New perspectives after the virus.
The corruption of truth and democracy- what do we do -how does it work -how can we heal the system itself? The role of the media in regime formation, corruption and the treatment of the media and roles and responsiblities of journalists in the comtemporary age? Can we continue to expect independent journalism in an age of privatisation and corruption?
10.45- 11.00 UK Time BST Short Break
11.00- 12.00 UK Time BST Session 2 -Building a better world and a green recovery
Humans learning to share the world with other systems and creatures ? Can we really learn to do it.? Is the age of man the hunter over- is it now time to nuture and enhance ? The age of the benevolvent gatherer returns. The Green Economic Recovery, No More Business As Usual, Global Reset, Build Back Better. Building a Better World. A Just Transition: Diversity, Holism, Sustainability, SDGs, We explore how to change economics, investment and finance to provide a future for humanity, other species, the climate and the Earth. The circular economy, Basic Income, The Green New Deal – no more business as usual. The future is in our hands! Reclaiming Economics from its small group of narrow interests in profit, growth, greed and destruction – and turning it into something beneficial where all the World flourishes.
12.00 – 12.15 UK Time BST Short Break
12.15-13.15 UK Time BST Session 3 Parallel Sessions- Practical Economics Future
Session 3a) Equity is the price of survival – Contraction and convergence –
Session 3b) Man the fixer to womens soft power to heal? Jobs for the boys or an inclusive green economy ? Technological options from man the fixer?
Session 3c) -An Economy for Future Generations . Natural systems to care for the planet and the economy of the 7th generation -who really counts, who really matters- values, valuation and valuing.
Session 3d) Reseting Global Industry in the pandemic age
Lunch 13.15-13.45pm UK Time BST
13.45-14.45 UK Time BST Session 4. Visits to Global and regional areas: Building our green diplomacy network
Global Diplomacy and our new global network and research
Session 4 a) Greening the Japanese Economy
The greening of the Japanese Economy-Environmental Economics Perspectives: Koryo Suzuki and others.
b) Global Trade Flows,and their impact on poverty and development and gender.
Focus on China and the USA. Speaker invited Yanling Hu, (China)
14.45-15.45 UK Time BST Session 5 Paralel Sessions
Session 5a) Debate on the scope of economics and private property. Can we ever own the Earth?
Session 5b) If we have destroyed one planet – do we have the right to go and muck up another one? Hurting nature – the cause of future pandemics? 143 Million people being climate migrants by 2020 – is not a change –
Session 5c) It’s a climate emergency! Species and people are all on the move towards cooler climates. The Arctic heatwaves signal warming unseen since before human civilisation began. We explore the climate science and facts and ask what does it take to convince people – that its finally time to act?
15.45-16.00 UK Time BST Short Break
16.00-17.00 UK Time BST Parallel Sessions
Session 6a) The economics of food farming and agriculture – domestication ? Is the age of man the hunter over- is it now time to nuture and enhance ? The age of the gatherer returns.
6 b) Our exciting formal Debate between natural foods and scientific futures, frankenstein foods, sweeping all life from the sea floor or lab grown food?
6c) Animals as sentient beings – The triumph of nature or the triumph over nature? Come and debate with our expert speakers.
6d) Nature based solutions, ecosystem services – environmental economics -ecological economics, circular economy, sustainably managed fisheries- stakeholder capitalism-green wash or making a difference- or green economy and deep ecology and existence value approaches survival solutions-with the precautionary principle?
17.00 – 17.15 UK Time BST Short Break
17.15 -18.15 UK Time BST Session 7 – Digitalisation and Amazonisation of the global Economy and supply chains:
Banking and stability in 2021- the new stress tests:
The golden age investment switch has arrived? Green Investment cycles in 2021.
Bitcoin and on line values. Modern supply chains and the ethics of global resources- mining for metals- can it ever be fair- can the green recovery be inclusive and fair.?
Hi tech -digitisation and the future of the economy and democracy- now inextricably bound up together- can democracy withstand and prosper in the age of algorythms and tech giants? The next wave of the internet. Economics, Digitisation of world- the lasting legacy of the pandemic? or natural order of development? The re emergence of Technology in 2021-The role of health economics.
Tech investment, Build Back Better -A just transition :The green economy and renewable energy and technology. Speakers include: Professor Baghdadi Mahmouz -Algeria specialist in battery power
18.15 – 18.30 UK Time BST Short Break
18.30- 19.30 UK Time BST Section 8 Partner Sessions -with other groups and organisations:
Session 8a) : Partner session with the Association of Heterodox Economics and their speakers.Chaired by Prof Simon Mouatt.
Session 8b) The views of 2021 from around the NGOs – which of the momentus developments really matter? what actions should we take?
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Programme Day 2
Climate and Biodiversity at a cross roads Environmental Perspectives 2021 Towards COP26 Climate Change Glasgow and COP15 Kunming China, Biodiversity Summits.
8.00-9.00am – BST UK Time Connection testing for participants
9.00-9.30 am -Introduction and Welcome to the conference and Day 2 –
Setting the Scene Preparing for the 2 big United Nations Conferences in 2021.
9.30- 9.45 am BST UK time Short Break
9.45-10.45- am Uk time BST Opening Plenary
The Time of Biodiversity and Climate Action and Recalibration of our entire role in the universe.
Panel debate -Equity is the price of survival – Contraction and convergence
-The situation in nature in 2021 Setting the Scene–Results of scientific reports- and research. the shocking state of nature and how humans have wiped most of it out. How this has helped create a series of pandemics and a new environment which threatens our future.
Speakers include
Dr Asia Mohamed, University of Khartoum Sudan, Economist, United Nations-IPBES lead Africa-Green Economics Institute Research Group
Dr Susan Canney, Professor of Zooology, University of Oxford and author at the Green Economics Institute
Dr Djana Bejko, Former Minister of Environment, Albania and currently Director of the Environment Ministry. Professor of Ecology and Biology.
10.45-11.00 Uk time BST Short Break
“11.00- 12.00 BST Uk time- Session 2 –
Climate Change and run up to COP26 Latest science on climate change
Panel Plenary experts on the link to pandemics and biodiversity and nature
Is this our future or can we change it? Race to zero, net zero, renewables
The activities in 2021 to deal with this- solutions, philosophical adjustments needed. Different paths and policy choices- humans at a cross roads. The International institutions -what are they offering and how do they differ. Economic Options- what are they offering and how do they differ.? Nature based solutions, ecosystem services – environmental economics -ecological economics-green wash or making a difference- or green economy and deep ecology and existence value approaches survival solutions-with the precautionary principle.
Speakers include:
Prof Asia Mohammed Sudan, IPBES Africa Lead
Dr Vandana Shiva, India
Baronness Natalie Bennett, UK House of Lords. TBC
Speakers include:
Dr Djana Bejko Former Environment Minister of Albania and currently its Director
Prof Asia Mohammed Sudan, IPBES Africa Lead
12.00-12.15 Short Break
12.15-13.15 Session 3 Parallel Session Plenary Climate change and the working groups of COP26 United Nations and our own delegation – what are the issues-? how do we each make a difference?
Session 3a) -Master classes- the science – the current state knowledge
Session Master classes- 3b) the law of international treaties- How the law works and why it matters
Session 3c) Governance -and how it works and why it matters
Session 3d) Democracy in a post covid world- what will it look like?
13.15-13.45 BST UK time Lunch Break
13.45- 14.45 Session no 4 Green Diplomacy International. Our report back from the GEIs United Nations Diplomatic Climate Missions Our house is on fire-GEI Methods for putting out the flames effectively. The Green Economics Institute Policies to achieve stabilisation of the climate and provide for momentum for climate ambition.
Renewables and the green technology revolution -how far has it come- what is its current progress and values?
Summary of next steps to save the climate and next actions and proposals for the United Nations.
Session no 5 Virtual visits -sessions- around the world
Session 5a) Food and Farming
Global Reset, Grow your own! Ending Pollution, The New Normal, Reclaiming our own food, Fresh, Healthy, Life Giving Food, Locally Grown – the links between healthy food, avoiding pandemics, keeping safe and ending the power of corporations to skew our health, make us ill and then mend us all for a profit.We can grow our own food – all we need is light and a window sill, nature provides well for us. Lets not allow her to be destroyed in the name of profit and greed and economics. Virtual visits to farms, gardens and kitchens around the world.
‘The rescue of the old autochthone pepper varieties in South India – Ark of Pepper. A world heritage project’ Germany
Speakers include – Rudolf Bühler, Organic Farmer at Sonnenhof, Germany. Expert in Biodiversity (Germany) Also President of ECOLAND International and Farmers Association of Schwäbisch Hall. Founder of Foundation House for Farmers, Castle of Kirchberg – Germany
Session 5b) Virtual visits to forests and trees and the oceans
Saving our friends the Trees and the Habitats they provide:
Exploring the Primal Forests of Europe, the cultural respect for Trees, the secret life of Trees and how they nurture us. Understanding the power processes which have sought to destroy trees and how we need trees for our survival and how to protect them and how to change the legal system so it supports life on earth, rather than endorses and reinforces its destruction in the name of law and order and the economy. Trees are life givers, oxygen creators, important habitats and climate regulators. We need them.
5 c) Saving our oceans and the Habitats they provide:
15.45-16.00 BST Short Break
16.00-17.00 Session no 6 Partners and climate action with NGOs and campaigners Trashing the planet- can we reform humans ? -Biodiversity – Keeping Life on Earth during an attack of the humans!Preparing for COP15 Biodiversity Summit and beyond. The situation in nature in 2021 Setting the Scene–Results of scientific reports- and research. the shocking state of nature and how humans have wiped most of it out. How this has helped create a series of pandemics and a new environment which threatens our future.
Speakers include
Professor Vandana Shiva, India
Bianca Madison -Vuletta
17.00-17.15 Short Break
17.15-18.15 BST Session no 7 Parallel Sessions- Nature and Biodiversity and preparing for Kunming COP15 IPBES : Biodiversity Segment .
The Need for Nature -Making a new contract with Nature- Recalibrating our relationship with the entire natural world and making an entire new philosophy. Latest reports and science- setting the scene
Agroecology, agriculture -intensive or extensive, fish, oceans, water, life on earth -can it withstand the on slaught of classical economics? How does a green economy differ? Outloook for policy recomendations from the Institute to policy makers. Next steps
Core Next steps that need to be taken and where green economics perspectives can help us. Taking a more comprehensive view of biodiversity -some kind of principles- taking value can be measured in different ways. Can policy makers make sure they include this solutions- what does it mean for the institutes views on this topics.
Debate -what are the next steps -what are policy choices- ?
The Biodiversity Initiatives and activities in 2021 to deal with this- solutions, philosophical adjustments needed. Different paths and policy choices- humans at a cross roads. The International institutions such as the United Nations, The IPBES, President Macrons -One Planet Summit, Prince Charles Terra Carta etc. what are the initiatives offering-what are they offering and how do they differ.
Speakers include:
Prof Asia Mohammed Sudan, IPBES Africa Lead
Dr Vandana Shiva, India
Baronness Natalie Bennett, UK House of Lords. TBC
Speakers: Bianca Madison- Vuleta (UK, Denmark, Croatia, Italy) and Dorothy Nalebega Uganda
7a) Marine ecosystems
7b) Forests trees- climate -the stage of the next fight and back lash
7c) water, rivers, landscapes, biodiversity and habitat, clean air and soil . Oceans water rivers and biodiversity and marine life and environments
18.30-19.30 Concluding Session Day 2 next steps and policy and action plans
Outloook for policy recomendations from the Institute to policy makers. Next steps
Core Next steps that need to be taken and where green economics perspectives can help us. Taking a more comprehensive view of biodiversity -some kind of principles- taking value can be measured in different ways. Can policy makers make sure they include this solutions- what does it mean for the institutes views on this topics.
Debate -what are the next steps -what are policy choices- ?
Conclusions and next steps – imputs to our main conference and to the United Nations and other initiatives to address this threat. All participants and discussion.
Destruction or survival -how do the paths appear to us now in 2021?
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Day 3 Programme Momentum for raising ambition on Social Justice –
Health, Pandemics,Gender, Indigenous world views, access to IT and participation in the world education and economy -time for a global reset.
We are all in this together, if we hurt one person and keep them in poverty and injustice, they are far more likely to become ill and we can catch it – so never has it been so important to look after every person and every living being properly. We exploit anyone and we hurt ourselves. Everyone needs the same opportunities as everyone else – we cant have just 8 men to own half the world’s wealth – its time to share properly. vTowards a new philosophy of what a human is -values valuation and valuing- evaluating 10,000 years- was it worth it ? Social justice and equality- poverty distribution – global family of humans. Deep Dive Into Global Poverty Prevention
8.00-9.00 am BST UK time -Technical conection session
9.00- 9.30- Introduction and welcome to the conference day 3.
9.30-9..45 Short Break
9.45- 10.45 Opening Plenary
The new importance of international regimes, institutions and trade blocks in determined the health and well being and social standing of humans and non humans- how do we manage this? Leena Ahmed -Green Diplomacy International , Michelle Gale USA
Public policies on health -social determinants of health Miranda Brown
Public invements in early childcare. The importance of education in the recovery
Privacy and data privatisation and ownership of data
10.45-11.00 Short Break
11.00-12.00 Session 2 Panel no 5 Mental Health, well being and Green and social Prescriptions
Dr Katherine Kennet Social Prescribing
Dr Alex Lai to be confirmed Well Being
Bianca Madison -Vuleta Mental health, Life style and well being expert
Extinction and the mechanics of species survival, Mental health, social prescribing, recovery in nature.
Extinction, survival, archaology, historical records, species, Pandemic, health, vacine – no one is safe until everyone is safe. Reseaech methodologies and philosophies
12.00-12.15 Short Break
12.15- -13.15 Session 3 Paralell Sessions Diverse Experiences and perspectives-
Diversity in Action -Methods and tools for diversity-The Green Economics Institute Trust – Miriam Kennet and trustees
The need for Realist Biographical Methodology and the life lived.
The disproportionate effect of the pandemic on certain groups – ienquality- contraction and convergence of wealth.
a) Social Perspectives in 2021. Caring for others, our own role in the pandemic, equality, inclusion, caring sharing and supporting each other. Theories of other, and ethics for the 3rd millenium. Assessing how to achieve the SDGs.
Sustainable Development and Business- Professor Dzintra Astaja Latvia
b) the wages of corruption –
How do we emerge from years of corruption and inequality and exploitation into a green economy of the future?
c) The legacy of colonialiality and exploitation on our economy and society – can we re configure this ? The lessons from 2021 around the world
d) Understanding the black lives matter movement and why it matters and its symbolism for the worlds power and wealth -why we need to address this now- equity is the price of survival
e) Equity is the price of survival – Indigenous voices from around the world- the amazon a human construct- whose is it- is it itime to listen and learn from our elders
Speakers: Professor Chelsea Fairbank -USA Anthropologist -Philosophy and impacts of Inequality and Agneta Granstroem Indigenous Sami -MP Sweden.
13.15-13.45- Lunch Break
13.45-14.45 Session 4 -Future global leaders: Visits to global and regional areas- building our regional diplomacy network
The future is Africa- exploring the future of us all.
The future is Europe –
14.45-15.45 Session 5 The pandemic pushed 75million into poverty in India. The effects of the pandemic on poverty- methodology and literatures – what are the issues- global extreme poverty- effects on food, housing, agriculture and resources- flashpoints of the future-
15.45- 16.00 Short Break
16.00 -17.00 Session 6
Women and the pandemic effects. Poverty and social justice – gendered poverty effects.
Bianca Madison -Vuleta chairs a Panel
17.00-17.15 Short Break
17.15- 18.15 Session 7 Managing Migration and climate and resource stress- the growing issues of in country displacement, poor country hosting of migration eg Jordan, Bangladesh- water stress eg Nigeria, Latin America- Columbia. Venuzuela, Somalia. Ethopia- how do we help during the rise of climate and biodiversity stress. Urban – countryside mass movements of people- relocation and reversal of the urbanisation. Forced migration and fleeing conflict and humanitarian focus and human and institutional capacity to offer support to them- and the conditions of life- in transit camps- health implications How will it look -after the pandemic -How we value migrant labour- exceptions made for certain professions over others. Changing the narative of Migration- the new normal.
Hosted by Leena Ahmed and Miriam Kennet-
18.15-18.30 Short Break
18.30-19.30 -The role of the internet in driving social justice in 2021:The Potential for the Internet in Driving Social Justice-Can it be fair- ? an issue for our times
The internet is a powerful tool. The wide potential for democratisation and social justice are evident, yet many of these movements have failed to develop into real social change. Paradoxically, the same tools with the potential for social justice have fuelled the very opposite. To effectively utilise the power of the internet for social justice, we must navigate these problems and understand how detrimental outcomes materialise. This book will explore the conflicting realities of the nature of the internet and offer solutions for reclaiming it as a tool for social justice.
Since its inception, this power has been recognised for its potential in driving social justice in a variety of ways. A space to bring together new or marginalised communities despite geographical boundaries; a public sphere for debate and deliberation; a means to spread information and hold power to account; and a platform for the organisation and mobilisation of incipient social movements; and various technologies enabling social change.
Mining metals for the energy transition – can it be fair?
Speakers: https://www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/metals-for-europe
Lithium mining plans in Cornwall – I’ve checked the info with locals – and a video by Lucy Crane, senior geologist at Cornish Lithium.https://www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/metals-for-europe-6
19.30 – 20.00 Concluding Session and Next Steps
Debates, experts, workshops, campaigns, research. We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? Or do we want well-being and a work life balance exploring the cultural impacts in shaping a new human beyond homo economicus. Smart Cities, smart women, smart lives? Young peoples futures, older people care, indigenous peoples, we are all one humanity. Our future is their future. We must work together.
Introducing our Green Economics Institute Trust charity work and public benefit
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