"The Beyond Growth 2023 Conference is a multi-stakeholder event aiming to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe. (...) This three days major event is a cross-party initiative of 20 Members of the European Parliament, supported by a wide-range of partner organisations. It will involve stakeholders from EU and national policymaking, academia, social partners and civil society organisations. - The conference is entirely free, to make it more accessible. - The conference also relies on participative methods. - It has 7 plenary sessions, 20 focus panels and 4 policy labs."
Location:
European Parliament; 60 rue Wiertz;
Bruxelles, Belgium
and online in livestreams
Date:
15-16-17 May 2023
Goals and Key questions, organizing and supporting partners
Speakers
Programme and schedules:
Opening plenary – Limits to Growth: where do we stand and where do we go from here?
2 – Changing the goal: from GDP growth to social prosperity
3 – Addressing the limits of resource consumption: towards a resilient economy
4 – Understanding the biophysical limits to growth to build an economy that respects planetary boundaries
5 – Building post-growth macroeconomic governance framework: aligning tools, rules and policies with EU political goals
6 – The power of economic models on decision-making and society at large
Closing plenary – Pathways from here: roadmap for a Green and Social Deal
1 – Which prosperous future? Confronting narratives of growth
2 – How to target and future-proof industrial policy towards climate neutrality?
3 – Beyond growth beyond Europe: What policies and partnerships to make it happen?
4 – Unlocking a just and sustainable economy through Universal Basic Services
5 – From the welfare state to the social-ecological state: how to organise and finance welfare without growth?
6 – Inequalities in a beyond growth perspective: taxation as an instrument of ecological and social justice
7 – Care economy: doing away with gender blind policies for a beyond growth future
8 – Cutting the addiction of labour to growth: the 4 days week
9 – Building an energy sector compatible with ecological limits
10 – Building a fair, social, green, autonomous digital future for a postgrowth economy
11 – The role of small and medium enterprises in a beyond growth economy
12 – The “Blue Doughnut”: A framework for a wellbeing ocean economy beyond growth
13 – Repairing and restoring Nature in a beyond growth perspective: is putting a price on biodiversity the right way to go?
14 – From Anthropocene to Cyclocene – Will circular economy keep us within planetary boundaries?
15 – Trade for sustainable development: how to benchmark success?
16 – Transforming food for the wellbeing of people and planet
17 – Challenges to feminist fiscal policies beyond growth: a focus on gender budgeting tools
18 – Beyond GDP indicators
19 – A financial system fit for a postgrowth economy
20 – What does a credible EU-wide, social and economic framework to achieve a just transition look like?
