Green Economics Conference 24th -26th July 2020 On Line Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss Via zoom webinars, break out rooms and meetings Day 1 : Friday 24th July 2020 9.00-9.30 Introductions Uk time Session 1 Day 1 • 9. 30-10.30 Plenary: Recalibrating our relationship with Nature: Avoiding future pandemics and zoonotic diseases by behaving decently and with respect to other species and to nature and not invading or destroying their habitats- we are temporary visitors on the earth, not stewards, colonizers, rapists or owners. • Debates: Can we ever own the earth? If we have destroyed one planet - do we have the right to go and muck up another one? • 10.15-10.30 Q and A Speakers: Tracy Marchioness of Worcester- Farms not Factories in the UK and around the world- Professor Asia Mohammed IPBES Biodiveristy United Nations- Sudan (Economics) Dr Vandana Shiva India Dr Djana Bejko Albania -former Deputy Minister of the Environment Kristina Jociute The ancient woodland customs in Lithuania 10.30- 10.45 Short Intersessional Break 10.45-11.30 Smaller groups for Networking, Discussion and Debate • 22nd century Utopian Dreams and Visions Revived: Global Reset- where are the battle lines drawn today? With the Arctic having a heatwave- the Siberian permafrost melting, many parts of the world warmer than for 100,000 of years, CO2 now over 400 ppm, predictions of warming up to 10 to 15 degrees warmer, pandemics ragging with more coming through- fish predicted to boil in the sea- where do we finally say enough? Lets actually do something? Business- Business as usual is over- the public want some changes? Will they be enabled to have them? The world we want- in smaller groups- brain storm what it might look like? • Speakers Agneta Granstroem, Indigenous Representative, Arctic Circle, Sweden • Day 1 24th July 2020 12.00- 13.00 Uk time Humans and our place in Nature explored • • The Mali Elephant Project. This presentation will explore how a focus on finding ways for humans and elephants (who are a proxy for biodiversity) to thrive together, has also reversed ecosystem degradation as well as improved local livelihoods, social cohesion, youth unemployment, and provided insights for stabilisation during lawlessness. • Dr Susan Canney -University of Oxford - Break -13.00 - 14.00 UK time: Icebreakers : Virtual visits to our teams around the globe- firstly- to our teams Asia Virtual visits to farms, cities, lunches and dinners around the world and to indigenous peoples in Africa and other parts of the world including our network members in Bhuttan and Khazakstan Exhibition stands in smaller breakout rooms/ media -social media- networking/ Discussions and networking rooms Breakout rooms/Meeting rooms for networking debates -white board and post it notes Learn and Lunch: Science, health, climate and nature exhibition stands- come and get some truth, facts and reality Café Lunch from the Welcome Foundation Session 2. Day 1- 14.00-16.00 14.00-15.00- Panel Debate in plenary • We need diversity, holism, multi and interdisciplinary modes to solve our crises- Hidden voices: Sustainability, green economics must encompass Smart Women and the need for an enhanced understanding of the role of technology and automation Women’s leadership and soft power to science, technology and innovation • Q and A • Speakers: • Bianca Madison -Vuleta • Keli Yen- Director Global Greens • Dr Vandana Shiva India 15.00-15.05 Short Intersessional Break • 15.00-16.00 Plenary debate- Women as Green Economists and Financiers: Women are increasingly being understood to be missing from Economics in particular. Text books exclude them very often, most academic journal editors are men, most tenure is for men. Men appoint men. Womens economics perspectives are fascinating and so this panel will explore economics -as it will be in the future -but from diverse perspectives and voices not always heard in the mainstream. Speakers Professor Maria Madi, Brazil Finance Specialist Professor Bozena Ryszawska Poland Economist Professor Doaa Salmon Egypt Economist Professor Dr Ewa Ruminska-Zimny (feminist economy) Poland 16.05-17.00 Plenary debate • The future is African: Africa -the seat of human learning -discussion on how young Africans are mapping out their own future, solving the problems of the pandemic and that of all of us. Rethink -reset the world. Understanding the African civilisations and history and its part in the history of everyone and everything on earth. • Speakers: • Dorothy Nalumbega • Dolopo Agdebe • Anjikwi Mshallbwana Sadiq Okoh 17.00-19.00 Break Meet our Authors from around the world/Virtual Visits to our team members in Africa/Visits to the Galapagos, and virtual visits to the Americas Call for Papers for Paper presentations /Call for Posters/Exhibition stands -campaigning groups Break out sessions -Guided white board (Miro) solutions in small groups discussing the next steps from the plenaries with speakers and making recommendations for action. Using white boards in smaller groups Session 3 Day 1: 17.00-19.00 UK time 17.00-18.00 The Uses and Abuses of the Law. Plenary debate 2 parts: • Part 1 17.00-18.00 • Do trees have standing? Can you really own anything? Who owns your body, your genetic material, your health, your data, indigenous rights, seeds, patents, your art, your music, your soul? Most serious crimes have always been done in the name of the law-slavery, the holocaust, animal genocide and endless suffering. • Ewa Sufin Poland • Kristina Jocuite Lithuania Part 2 18.15-19.15 • How do we use the law to help us- and how do we call out unjust or unhelpful law and institutions? Drawing on slavery, black lives matter, the debate about the police, the debate about indigenous land, IT, technology, patents- we discuss with experts what the role of the law needs to be and why this campaign is an integral part of Green Economics Practice. • Q and A Speakers • Dr Adrienne Barnett Family Law Barrister and former lawyer ANC • Maria Fernanda Madi -Invited NL and Brazil invited • Margarita Nieves (Columbia) invited • Agneta Granstroem Indigenous sami and arctic circle Sweden 19.15- 20.15 Short Intersessional Break 20.00- 21.00 Post Oil Economic Challenges Norway, Nigeria, Columbia and many other countries debate what are the main challenges and opportunities and how fast do we need to go to save the climate so its suitable for humans to live in? Speakers Hans Kare Flo -Norway Technical Trade Union Dr Enrico Tezza- Italy- International Labour Organisation Nigerian Minister of Oil, Sadiq Okoh – Author of Nigeria Post Oil 21.05-22.00 Plenary debate • Responses to the Pandemic- economics, climate, social and environmental justice- solutions. Build Back Better. Housing, buildings, energy, insulation, transport, heating, embodied carbon, supply chains. Building a just transition and inclusive jobs for everyone. • Climate Finance, Green Investments/Savings Institutions and Schemes Exhibitions • Green Investments/Savings Institutions and Schemes Exhibitions • Speaker • Professor Natalie West India • Q and A Day 2 : Saturday 25th July 2020 via zoom webinar, break out rooms and meetings Pre Session - 7.00-8.00 am UK time- First ever Global Institutes Forum – Please sign up to this session if you would like your institute to take part. Chair Keli Yen of the Global Greens Network. 8.00- 9.00 Pre - Session Day 1 Plenary debate • Trade Practices- a realignment is taking place of the Post WW2 consensus. Expert ideas and opinions. What is the role of China, Japan and Russia and India on the international stage and the emerging economies of Asia? • What will be the relationship between the different trading blocks- and how far are they influenced by their histories from the distant and recent past- what is the future likely to hold? • Q and A Session 1 9.00-11.00 UK time Icebreaker: and introductions smaller rooms. 9.30-10.30 Plenary Keynotes Opening Session • The future of Europe and the Green New Deal • People around Europe are much keener on Europe and the European Project- realising they are one humanity and are starting to understand the benefits, in many areas, including security, migration, food, health and environmental issues, rights, workers, job futures, and progress, what does this mean for all of us? What does the Green New Deal Mean? • Speakers: • Giles Merritt- Director- Friends of Europe- The updated paperback edition of his book ‘Slippery Slope; Brexit and Europe's Troubled Future’ • Speaker from ENOP Mana Livardi • Speaker from GEF 10.15 UK time-10.30 UK time Q and A 10.30-11.30 Panel debate in break out rooms • Different economic styles and schools Shaping new ideas into comprehensive economic concepts – Ideology versus enlightenment, Heterodox Economics, Circular economy- Green Economics, Commons, Universal Basic Income, Sustainability, Green New Deal Post Growth, etc • Speakers: • His Excellency Craig Simmons, Lord Mayor of Oxford- discusses green budgets for today 11.30. UK time -14.00 UK time Break Visits to Asia/ Virtual dinners /Lunching together around the globe: Visits to farms, gardens, kitchens all over the world Exhibition stands Networking /Virtual Visits to farms, green jobs and many others around the world/ Members’ networking group -join our Institute and enter a new world of diverse, inclusive and accessible - innovators and out of the box thinkers!/Science, health, climate and nature exhibition stands- come and get some truth, facts and reality 12.30-14.00 Uk time: World Café-Workshop with Global Greens – our partner