When? Jan 15, 18:00-19:30

Where? WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center (LC Building) Ceremonial Hall 1

Economic fallacies of the green transition

Humanity is facing an interlocking complex of social, ecological, and economic crises. Strategies for the economic transition remain within the bounds of the growth economy, including Green Deals and energy transitions. Is trading in new environmental commodities and offsetting environmental destruction, e.g. with carbon permits and biodiversity credits, the right response to the destruction of ecosystems and the mass extinction of species? Or do we need a completely new economic paradigm to inform systemic transformation? (What alternative economic systems are needed to initiate real change?)

Lecture:

Clive L. Spash, Chair of Public Policy & Governance, Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations, Department of Socioeconomics, WU Vienna

Discussion:

Ursula Bittner, Spokesperson and Economic Expert, Greenpeace

Jutta Kill, Researcher and Activist, World Rainforest Movement (WRM)

Vincent Liegey, coordinator of Cargonomia, Degrowth research and experimentation cooperative

Christina Plank, Researcher, Institute for Development Research, BOKU University

Moderated by:

Ines Omann, Sustainability Researcher and Facilitator

Register here: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/wumatters/terminkalender/details/detail/destroying-nature-to-save-it