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Green Economics Institute / Progressive economicsIn association with Ashgate Academic Publishing, Gower Management Books, Inderscience Publishers of academic journals,Venice International University,Italy, The International Journal of Green Economics, Purchasing and Supply Management Ltd., Green Economics Institute Brazil, Campinas University Brazil, and Green Economics Institute Nigeria, European Network of Political Foundations, Brussels, Member of the Green European Foundation,Luxembourg.
A Green Economics Conference/ Symposium
Greening the Economy
Green Economics solutions
to the climate crisis, economics crisis and ecological crisis:
An economics of sharing and poverty prevention
Saving Kyoto and Planning for Copenhagen COP 15
28 November 2009
Oxford University Club, Oxford, UK
for The Green Economics Institute Conference
28 November 2008 10:00 – 23:30
Sessions /Speakers
Keynote speakers:
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky
UNESCO Professor of Economics Columbia University
author of the Kyoto Protocol, and the Nobel Prize winning IPCC Report.
Professor David Simon Development Economics and Geography, Royal Holloway College
Professor Jack Reardon Hamline University USA Economics
10:00 / Morning Session
Reviewing Green Economics
Setting the Scene
Welcome
and Introduction and Update to
Green Economics
Introduction to the Green Jobs Initiative with International Labour Organisation and EURAC in Bolzano
Miriam Kennet
Introducing the Special Double Issue of
International Journal of Green Economics to mark Copenhagen Conference on climate change
Introducing the special issue of the
International Journal of Green Economics
on Women's Unequal Pay and Poverty
The Development Perspective
Keynote Speech
Professor David Simon
The Development/ Growth /Sustainability Trade Off
Where do we stand today?
Prosperity without Growth:
Current issues:
Climate change Economics
Growth, lower growth – enhanced growth ?Planning for the green jobs initiative:
Naomi Baster Orkney
Volker Heinemann
Michele Gale, USA and Brazil
Victor Anderson
Miriam Kennet
The current economic crisis and the role of the Green Economy in its recovery
David Gee European Environment Agency
Ecosystems and the Economics Crisis
Miriam Kennet
Green Economics Institute
The Institutional Perspective
Global and European Institutional perspectives of the Green Economy, and Civil Society NGOs perspective:
Michele Gale USA Richmond American University
Michael Briguglio University of Malta Sociology Department
Green Economics as Heterodox Pluralism and the Economics of Sustainable Development :
Professor Jack Reardon USA
Author
Heterodox Economics Teaching Book Routledge:
Green Economics
Pluralistic Heterodox
Martin Mattson
University of Oxford
“The environment in main stream economics education”?
Dr Jampello D'Angello Italy
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Multidisciplinary
"A sustainability analysis of the Millennium Development Goals" Political economy
Emanuel Campiglio
University of Pavia Italy
Theoretical analysis of the connections between growth and welfare, with a particular focus on mobility and transports.
Contraction and convergence paths that developed and developing countries need to ensure long term sustainability
“Can Green Marketing be used as a tool for Sustainable Growth?(A Study Performed on Consumers in India-A Developing Economy)”
Dr Ravindra Saxena,
University of Wollongong in Dubai
and Pradeep K Khandelwal
The role of the markets and ethical investment:
Dr Jean Boulton
Cranfield University
'Power, increasing returns and implications for the invisible hand.'
Christopher Blount Ethical Investment Redmayne Bentley Green Investments
Martin Bowes
Ethical Business Club Oxford
Peter Lang
Ethical Investment, Member of the Board of the London Pensions Fund Authority
How the financial services industry needs courage and humility to address environmental pressure.
Douglas Prentice
Eurocapital investments
Financing new technologies in energy efficiency and renewable energy
Besmir Geziqi
Green Economics in the Balkans and Albania
The state of the art
Djana BEJKO, University "Luigj Gurakuqi" Shkoder,
The Regional Environmental Center, Country Albania
Management of Natural Resources, Senior Expert
Smaj Kendra
The NGO perspective in Bangladesh
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
14.00 / Afternoon Session:
Preparing for Copenhagen
Dealing with Climate Change
Green Construction Forum
Jonathan Essex, BioRegional Development
Group
Sophie Christopher Bowes
Ethical Business Club,Oxford
The Economics Perspective:Preparing for Copenhagen:
Saving Kyoto with its originator : Professor Graciela Chichilnisky
UNESCO Professor of Economics and Statistics author of IPCC Report into climate change,inventor of Kyoto
Master Class : USA and Argentina
The current structure of the energy industry: Alternative Energy Debate:
Sarah Skinner Solar, Uk and South Africa: the structure of the energy industry
Professor Jack Reardon USA Nuclear and Renewable- the role of the Oil companies
Dr David Toke University of Birmingham The structure and future of the Wind Industry 'The Politics of renewable energy'.
Renewable energy supporting recovery in the shorter and longer term.
Professor Michael Jefferson
Slow travel forum:
Michael Birtles from E Rail Travel
Professor Wolfgang Hoerschele
USA and Germany
Slow cities movement
Via webcam
Dr Susan Canney University of Oxford
Biodiversity Economics in the Greenhouse (being confirmed)
Measuring Development: Development Indicators
Exploring the work of Nancy Baster, Development Economist for UN
An interactive workshop
with Naomi Baster and Tim Baster
19.00 - 19.30 / Free Time in the Bar
19.30 - 23.30 / Conference Dinner
Saturday Evening
This is the provisional initial programme
This conference must be pre booked and pre registered. All participants including speakers are required to register and pay the fee of £95.00 per person per day for the day, (concessions available £45.00) and fill in the booking form. Fees include lunch and the conference dinner and all refreshments, (except evening bar drinks).
A proceedings document will be created from the speaker papers at the conference and this will be lodged with the British Library as a publication and will provide authors with citations. This proceedings document will be available 1 month after the conference in hard copy format. All Conference delegates who have pre -registered and pre -paid will receive a soft copy 5 days prior to the conference. Speakers are requested to provide either a one page information document including 5 line biography, or a paper for the academic paper section. Please inform us by email on booking in which section you would prefer be. Speakers and participants who provide papers will be considered for entry in our academic journal, volumes 4 and 5 and our book series. Papers for inclusion need to be emailed to us by 15th November 2009 and must include a 5 line biography.
Green Economics Institute Members reduction £10%. Student reductions available.
( Very nice modern bright and airy accommodation is available in the venue for overnight stays. ()if you wish to stay overnight .)
Please email
for further information about the conference and for a booking form.
This Conference will follow the tradition of the Green Economics Conferences which are the world's leading Conference series in Green Economics. Internationally renowned composite, multidisciplinary, scientists, economists, campaigners, Policy makers and Directors, Professors Social scientists and Researchers from all over the globe will present their frontier research findings and to keep up to date with latest achievements and developments in this very fast moving, leading and topical field.
This conference is designed to present the important research and findings of economics by doing and also theoretical ideas about what reforms Green Economics can offer the mainstream and to allow time to think about the issues more fully.
It will feature slow travel experts- come and find out how to get to Copenhagen without using up loads of unnecessary carbon.
The conference will also debate the current economics downturn.
This conference will have longer sessions than usual and allow plenty of time for debate and outcomes.
Green Economics views the current downturn as a clash between ecology and economy and argues that the commodity instability is a symptom the exhaustion of natural resources. The markets are correctly reflecting that and are indicating that traditional economics instruments and derivatives are however no longer any use, and new methods of creating a natural economics of abundance need to be urgently developed.
The world has changed and Green Economics is an economics which is comfortable with long termism- equity, climate issues and biodiversity costs and poverty prevention, and which has been waiting to take the mantle and that time has now arrived!
We look forward to welcoming you to The Oxford University Club, a lovely new bright and airy building overlooking the cricket green in one of the most beautiful cities in the world with outstanding, exciting and famous atmospheric Conference facilities excellent travel connections and accommodation.
Themes include
Preparing for Copenhagen Climate Change Conference,
Poverty prevention, climate change prevention, adaptation, mitigation.
The trade off between economy and ecology plays out in the new battleground for economics and saving the planet.
Economics, development and growth ? Is current economics up to the task of solving our problems?
Do we need more growth, more profit more development or do we need other solutions. Assessing market driven growth and sustainable development. Can we have our cake and eat it.
Green solutions, debating time, slow travel from the top experts in travel innovation and change.
Green Economics Institute / Progressive economicsBooking Form
Saturday 28 November 2009
10.00 am – 11.00 pm
Oxford University Club, Mansfield Road, Oxford
Green Economics Institute
Conference/Symposium
Planning for Copenhagen
Dealing with the economics crisis, the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis
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