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Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB)

Live panel discussion "Climate and Capitalism"

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Detalls de l'event

  • Inici: 15 jul. 2021 17:00
  • Virtual Activity

ICTA-UAB researcher Giorgos Kallis will be one of the experts taking part in the Terra.do public panel discussion on the challenges of climate action under different economic systems.

 

Date: Thursday July 15, 2021
Time: 5 PM – 6 PM CEST

Venue: Online Zoom – Register here


This live expert panel will focus on the role of capitalism in the climate crisis, and whether a safe and healthy future climate is easier or harder to achieve under different economic systems. The experts participating are  Alice Ross, Deputy News Editor at the Financial Times, author of Investing To Save The Planet; Giorgos Kallis, ecological economist at ICTA-UAB, author of Limits, and Amy Francetic, Managing Director of Buoyant Ventures, board chair of the Clean Energy Trust.

The event is organized for our 12-week Learning for Action course, but has been made available to anyone with an interest in the topic. Terra.do's goal has always been to promote a big-tent approach that is welcoming of all perspectives; we hope this panel will be an opportunity for different ideas to be aired about the interaction between climate action and the political economy.

Speakers

Alice Ross works on the main newsdesk at the Financial Times as Deputy News Editor and helps to oversee coverage on the homepage and the front page of the paper. She has held a range of roles across the FT including editor of Trade Secrets, editor of FT Wealth, Frankfurt bureau chief, currencies correspondent and deputy money editor. Her book, Investing to Save the Planet, was published by Penguin in November 2020. It explains how individuals can turn their savings and pensions, however big or small, into a force for change.

Giorgos Kallis is an ecological economist and political ecologist working on environmental justice and limits to growth. An ICREA professor since 2010, Giorgos was previously a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources group at the University of California-Berkeley. His research is ‘un-disciplinary’. He has worked over the years on very diverse topics; from water policy in Europe and California, participatory science, and evolution in societies, to climate change, limits to growth and conflicts over resource use. What connects the various pieces of work is a quest to understand why and how societies misuse their environments, and why behavioural, institutional and technological changes that could make a difference are not taken up. He is most known for his recent publications on ‘degrowth’, the hypothesis that societies can live better with less.

Amy Francetic is a business executive and entrepreneur with 25 years experience in the energy and high technology sectors. She founded two companies, sold one, advised a founder on the creation of another and served on his board of directors. Amy has strong management skills having hired dozens of employees, and is a successful fundraiser for private and nonprofit companies. An experienced investor with venture and private equity experience, Amy is now Managing Director at Buoyant Ventures, a new venture fund in Chicago that invests in digital climate solutions in North America.