Hosted and organised by Bas Eickhout (MEP and Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group) and Marie Toussaint (MEP and Vice-President of the Greens/EFA Group), in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, this event will present and discuss the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. It aims to bing together a wide range of voices from the European Parliament, high-level EU policymakers, trade unions, civil society leaders, academic experts and activist voices.
The event will be held in English, with French interpretation and will be livestreamed.
More information and registration HERE
No one really told us what organizing a degrowth conference would entail. We simply knew we wanted to do it. Two years of organizing, meeting, discussing and struggling have passed and now we’re less than seven weeks away from the first day of the conference. The initial motivation we all had in the summer of 2018 has not gone, but it has faltered at times. There have been days when I wo...
Local action is often the best remedy for the failings of the current system — a worldwide confederation of democratic communities can have the same impact at a global scale. Today we are seeing an inspiring resurgence of progressive action at the local level, even as reactionary nationalist movements in Europe and beyond seek to position themselves as the true voices of a renewed localism. ...
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