UAB to organise Growth vs Climate Conference 2024

Around 400 international researchers from diverse disciplines will discuss different perspectives on growth as part of the fight against climate change, as a path for reversing the climate crisis. Will green growth, the bioeconomy or the Green New Deal be enough to avert a climate disaster, or should we look to degrowth or agrowth as alternative models? What are the trade-offs associated with different mitigation strategies and how can we avoid rebound effects and negative social impacts?

The 3-day event will feature keynote speakers and presentations of scientific results on specific and cross-cutting themes, as well as policy debates and co-creation workshops organized across five big challenges for society: Oceans, Land, Cities, Consumption and Policies.  Participants are challenged to rethink how we manage our oceans, forests, cities, consumption patterns and economic systems in order to ensure a secure future.  

Keynote speakers include ecofeminist Yayo Herrero; Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera; Secretary of State for Social Rights, Rosa Martínez Rodríguez; Secretary of State for Climate Action of the Government of Catalonia, Anna Barnadas; economic anthropologist and ICTA-UAB researcher Jason Hickel, as well as the ecological economist of ICTA-UAB and Holberg Prizewinner 2023, Joan Martínez Alier, among others. Illustrator Javier Royo will lead a live graphic recording of the big ideas discussed during the event.

After 3 days of debates, the closing event will feature a talk by environmental activist Olivia Mandle, a performance by poetry slammer Adriana Bertran, and the human towers group of the UAB – Ganàpies.  
 
Inaugural Session

Wednesday 13 March 2024
Time: 3pm  Venue: Exe Campus Hotel - UAB – Campus de la UAB

Keynote: “Fair Ecosocial Transition. Landing on a translimited planet”

• Yayo Herrero, anthropologist, ecofeminist and engineer.

Inaugural debate
Moderated by Jason Hickel, ICTA-UAB anthropologist.

• Teresa Ribera, Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
• Rosa Martínez Rodríguez, Secretary of State for Social Rights, Spanish Government.
• Anna Barnadas, Secretary of Climate Action, Government of Catalonia.
• Victoria Reyes- García, anthropologist, ICREA Professor at ICTA-UAB.
• Jeroen van den Bergh, environmental economist, ICREA Professor at ICTA-UAB.
• Joan Martínez Alier, ecological economist at ICTA-UAB, Holberg Prizewinner 2023.

Live graphic recording of debate by illustrator Javier Royo.

Closing ceremony

Friday 15 March 2024
Time: 6pm  Venue: Exe Campus Hotel - UAB – Campus  UAB

• Talk by environmental activist Olivia Mandle.
• Poetry slam by Adriana Bertran.
• Performance by UAB human towers group, Ganàpies.