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Greening the Economy
1st December 2008
UNEP Geneva
Reclaiming economics for people, the planet, non-human species and the biosphereGreen Economics Institute
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Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
History
1995 Green Economics ConferenceLondon
1999 Published first book on GreenEconomics
2004 Founded International Journal ofGreen Economics: Inderscience Geneva
2005 First annual Green EconomicsConference, Oxford University
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Green and Economics together
There is no economicsoutside the naturalworld
So we need to:
Understand it and look after it
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Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
Increases to wealth happen outside the formal economy
• Women's work and caring work -
• Nature creates benefits• Open source creativity
happens outside formal economy
• Therefore Growth is not measured well under GDP
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Meaning of Greening
Oikia – Householdmanagement
Management of theestate
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Meaning of Greening
The complex mesh of Social and environmental justicetogether
Solving the credit crunch withoutaccelerating resource depletion
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The meaning of Green
Solving the Economics
of climate change
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Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
The meaning of Green
Ending the current
costly mass extinctionof species
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The meaning of Green always includes social justice
Gender and equityamong all peopleeverywhere
Access to economics
Decision making for all
Poverty Prevention
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Substitution of dirty industriesfor clean ones
We live in an age ofglobaltransformation
An age of GreenEconomics
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Sharing the resources of theworld
We need each other
and we need otherspecies
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Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
Accessibility and diversity
Access and equalityfor all
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Aims of Green Economics reform
mainstreamEconomics into more:
user- friendlyaccessible
usefuldiscipline
Our training courses at
Oxford Universityand the UK Treasury
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Green Economics =Provisioning for Needs
Provisioning for theneeds of:
All people everywhereOther species The planetThe systems of theplanet
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Green EconomicsSeries of Books
Our peer reviewed academic journal
InternationalJournal of Green
Economics
Everyone is welcome topublish in it
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Green Economics activities
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