Green Economics Institute 20th Anniversary Conference (3 days)

Green Economics Institute -20th Anniversary Celebrations

The Green Economics Institute's 20th Anniversary Conference will be held at St Hughs College University of Oxford on 14th 15th 16th June 2024. Tickets will be available on eventbrite (link below).

It will be held in person at the lovely St Hughs College, which appropriately started out as a women only college, and we will have the entire suite of buildings for 3 days to enjoy each others company and to try to change the world for the better.

Call for Papers:

We founded our institute in 2004 and now 20 years later - its 2023- what will our world look like in 2044 and do we have the power to set in train changes to make it a better place? how do we do that? and what do we need to do? We are calling for papers which discuss, vision and address any aspect of these challenges.

We are calling for papers, ideas, themes, workshops, papers, book chapters, conference papers, academic journal papers, and presenters, master classes.

Retrospective of all the previous 20 wonderful years of campaigning and changing the world and plans for the future.

Programme and speakers to be announced shortly- we are currently calling for speakers, sessions, workshops, papers etc and instructions will be posted here over the coming week. Please register however as soon as possible as our last few events have been full.

Provisional outline of sessions-more details will be released soon.

Day 1 -Friday June 14th 2024

Session 1

Introductions of all participants

Ice Breakers

Session 2

Introduction to The Green Economics Institute and our teams and our writing and impacts campaigns over the last 20 years

Session 3

Economics and our activities campaigns, partners and events for the last 20 years and looking ahead to the next 20 years. Workshops, discussions, master classes and presentations.

Lunch

Communal Photo

Session 3

Selected Speakers from the past 20 years- representing our global network and our themed campaigns writing and activities and our allumni from our education and our books and membership

Session 4 Green Economics and its evolution

Past present and future and literature and main advocates and implementations and projects and influence and uses and geographies.

Session 5

Keynote and a Master Class

Thoughts and findings -sharing todays ideas and next steps

Networking conference with our teams from around the world.

Allumni Presentations from around the world- where are they now.?

-Dinner -

Communal Dinner in Oxford2

Special Oxford style party soiree- Global allumni -network evening feature. All our wonderful 1000s of allumni are invited -cock tail night to celebrate black tie- to start the conference -the evening before. Union Style members debate - to enjoy during the celebrations. One evening during the conference.

Day 2 Saturday 15th June 2024

Session 1

Environmental Justice Update- Intersectional Loss and Damage from the social and environmental crises.

Session 2

Introduction and scene setting and retrospective of impacts, outputs and metrics and achievements of the institute

Lunch : Introducing our global network around the world -virtual visits of all kinds : Exhibition stands - Competition will open soon for spaces

Day 2 Afternoon 

Session 1

Speaker sessions- Competition for speaker sessions

Afternoon Session 2

Workshops sharing experiences

Afternoon Session 3

Allumni presentations on todays perspectives

Special Oxford style party soiree- Global allumni -network evening feature. All our wonderful 1000s of allumni are invited -cock tail night to celebrate black tie- to start the conference -the evening before. Union Style members debate - to enjoy during the celebrations.

We will attempt to link up with them and our teams in Asia including Japan, India, Bhuttan, Indonesia and many other countries. We will also launch books for as many countries as possible -in our ' greening of the world series.'

We will launch the update of our founding academic article- 'Green Economics -Setting the Scene'- Kennet and Heinemann (2006) International Journal of Green Economics Vol1 issue 1.

Day 3 Sunday 16th June 2024

Social Justice Update- Intersectional Loss and Damage from the social and environmental crises.

Introduction and scene setting and retrospective of impacts, outputs and metrics and achievements of the institute

Lunch

Exhibition stands - Competition will open soon for spaces

Session 1

Speaker sessions- Competition for speaker sessions

Session 2

Workshops sharing experiences

Session 3

Allumni presentations on todays perspectives

Session 4

Attendance certificates presentations

Master Classes and keynote speeches

Afternoon tea in an iconic tea room in Oxford - Special Oxford style party soiree- Global allumni -network evening feature. All our wonderful 1000s of allumni are invited -cock tail night to celebrate black tie- to start the conference -the evening before. Union Style members debate - to enjoy during the celebrations.

Practicals

Virtual visits to our network around the globe.