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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
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
Green and Economics together
There is no economicsoutside the naturalworld
So we need to:
Understand it and look after it
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
Meaning of Greening
Oikia – Householdmanagement
Management of theestate
Meaning of Greening
The complex mesh of Social and environmental justicetogether
Solving the credit crunch withoutaccelerating resource depletion
The meaning of Green
Solving the Economics
of climate change
Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
The meaning of Green
Ending the current
costly mass extinctionof species
The meaning of Green always includes social justice
Gender and equityamong all peopleeverywhere
Access to economics
Decision making for all
Poverty Prevention
Substitution of dirty industriesfor clean ones
We live in an age ofglobaltransformation
An age of GreenEconomics
Sharing the resources of theworld
We need each other
and we need otherspecies
Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
Accessibility and diversity
Access and equalityfor all
Aims of Green Economics reform
mainstreamEconomics into more:
user- friendlyaccessible
usefuldiscipline
Our training courses at
Oxford Universityand the UK Treasury
Green Economics =Provisioning for Needs
Provisioning for theneeds of:
All people everywhereOther species The planetThe systems of theplanet
Miriam Kennet, March 2007Reclaiming economics for people and the planetGreen Economics Institute
Green EconomicsSeries of Books
Our peer reviewed academic journal
InternationalJournal of Green
Economics
Everyone is welcome topublish in it
Green Economics Institute
For help with your
Green Economics activities
Visit our websitegreeneconomics.org.uk
or email