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
For many of us, swimming will have provided a temporary relaxing escape from the pandemic and searing heat in the recent summer months. In this piece republished from Undisciplined Environments, Elliot Hurst suggests the activity holds more radical potential than one might think. In Aotearoa New Zealand, shortly after arriving at the strategy gathering of a youth climate group, a friend ...
Previous global ‘efforts’ to tackle climate breakdown have failed dramatically, because they have been based on a fundamentally flawed economic paradigm: growth. The concept of growth is an altar at which economists, politicians and businesspeople across the political spectrum have worshipped for decades. Unfortunately, where the planet’s long-term habitability is concerned, it is this obsessi...
Some people object to the concept of “natural capital” because they say it reduces nature to the status of a commodity to be marketed at its exchange value. This indeed is a danger, well discussed by George Monbiot. Monbiot’s criticism rightly focuses on the monetary pricing of natural capital. But it is worth clarifying that the word “capital” in its original non-monetary sense means “a stock ...
