The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:
Building an Equitable Green Economy:
Translating Global Concepts to Local Action
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 9.30-12.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
The Green Economy has been identified as one of the two overarching themes of the upcoming UN Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ‘Rio+20’, in June this year.
The concept of a Green Economy is being used as a political catchphrase in many contexts, but it is seldom clearly defined, and it is often hazy how it relates to existing concepts like for instance ‘Sustainable Development’. Therefore, many Southern voices, both civil society and government, are critical of the concept of Green Economy, because they fear it will detract attention from existing efforts for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
This seminar will propose a different, more constructive, approach by presenting ideas for whether and how the Green Economy could be designed to become a vehicle for change leading towards sound sustainable development with equitable transformation.
This approach has been elaborated in a paper on ‘Building an Equitable Green Economy’, which will be presented in the seminar. The paper can be downloaded from the website of the Danish 92 Group, www.92grp.dk.
The paper brings to the table the notion of an equitable Green Economy as a means for achieving the objectives of sustainable development. It notes that the term Green Economy does explicitly only comprise two of the three strands of sustainable development: Environment (Green) and Economy. It insists that the social strand must be included explicitly as well, and for this it proposes the notion of Equity.
The paper wants, however, to move beyond an intangible, abstract understanding of equity and be able to identify its reality on the ground. With that in mind, it puts forward five working principles, which together create a more concrete framework and form a filter to inform policy and market decisions to progress on the equitable Green Economy pathway.
Speakers
Kim Carstensen, Founder, Fair Green Solutions
Tara Rao, Senior Advisor, Lead Author, Equitable Green Economy
Nanna Hvidt, Director, DIIS
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Programme
09.30-09.40 Welcome
Nanna Hvidt, Director, DIIS
09.40-10.10 Equitable Green Economy as a Means to Achieving
Sustainable Development
Kim Carstensen, Founder, Fair Green Solutions
10.10-10.55 Taking the Equitable Green Economy from Working
Principles to Practice
Tara Rao, Senior Advisor, Lead Author, Equitable Green Economy
10.55-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.00 Open Discussion
Chair: Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Monday, 14 May 2012 at 12.00 noon. |
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