Timetable of the 22nd Annual Green Economics Institute Oxford Conference

In a Sizzling World – We Set  the Scene for finding hope again-22 years of impact

Foyer Blavatnik

Communal Lunch Ice Breaker  in the College Restaurant

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Dr Bianca Madison-Vuleta, PhD hc

Polycrisis, Planetary Challenges and the role of the Green Economics Institute in Advancing Sustainable Solutions

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

22 years of Economics and Green Economics

Miriam Kennet Founder of the Green Economics Institute (PPT)

Whistle stop GEI activities and history taster session and scene setting: 

In our sizzling world –

Where are we now on planet earth. Hoping for a brighter future?

The GEI and its activities at the United Nations and its global network and publishing.

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Keynote: Baroness Natalie Bennett

Natalie Bennett

-Session on Nature’s Rights and National Resilience

-Keynote: Baroness Natalie Bennett, House of Lords, Palace of Westminster, UK.

Her Bill: https://theecologist.org/2026/jul/08/time-act-nature

And its relationship to security and resilience: https://nataliebennett.org/2026/07/09/debate-defence-readiness-bill-v-defence-and-resilience-bill/

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Climate Finance and sustainability,  Sustainable Finance and Economics and Sustainable

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Chair of North Wessex Downs National  Landscape.

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

The Care Economy and the New Global Demographic shifts and why they matter. Councillor and Research and Care Home, Care England Trustee.

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

The hopes for Europe and 20 years of  ENOP and GEI  helping Europe develop and realising its potential and aspirations.

Laurenz Van Ginneken of ENOP

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

-Miriam Kennet

In a sizzling hot world- wither climate ambition- what does it mean today- and how do we achieve it
Sizzling whilst the clock is ticking. We urgently need climate ambition -and we urgently need ambitious climate science, action and policy. What can we do to achieve it now? Saving Paris Agreement and saving climate science- linking COP & IPCC reports to needs of youth & future generations.

Climate Ambition and our work at the Green Economics Institute and the United Nations and our  regular United Nations Delegations to COP over the last 15 years.

Planning for COP 31 United Nations Delegation to Anatalya, Turkey  and our  official side event and exhibition stand

Find out how to apply to join  our  regular official United Nations Delegations  for Nature, Climate, Development, Climate Finance and others.

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

SB64: Edie Plat, Harry Cunningham and Naina Harish: –

Our young  delegates report on our delegation in June  2026

Lecture Theatre Blavatnik

Panel Debate and presentations chaired by Naina Harish. Speakers:

Keynote :

·           Liljana Popovska Former MP North Macedonia              Mining and Exploitation. Can it ever be fair- and what do we do about needing the minerals? V Why Don’t Balkan People Want Lithium and Gold? Are They Ignorant, Unaware of the Value of These Resources?

·        Naina Harish: Environmental Law and Human Rights- The example of Investor State Settlement Dispute  ISDS Laws

·        Edie Plat: Development investment and international trade in China. The example of Export Credit Guarantees as state support. (PPT)

Snacks and  Nibbles in the lovely ancient walled garden.

Royal Oak Woodstock Road,

Oxford

Royal Oak Public House, Oxford

A lovely and very historic and atmospheric  Oxford Pub,All tastes and budgets catered for including vegetarian and vegan,Please order and pay for  your food choice at the bar directly to the pub

Randolf Hotel

Inspiration, innovation, implementation- Reigniting Hope for our future together

Set Up Team

Friends Meeting House

Main Hall  PPT

·        Visits to the wonderful world of our GEI teams around the world and our activities

·        Networking Tea &  Coffee ,  Introduction,  Ice Breaker  & Recap from Day 1

·        Keynote:  Doaa Salman Economics Professor Cairo Egypt v

·        Anjikwi Mshelbwala  (PPT)

·        A visit to the wonderful natural landscape of Abuja, Nigeria and its impact and importance for citizens- and young people

·        Emmanuella Neiji:  Microbiologist from Nigeria presents the latest findings in microbiology and sustainability v

·        Professor Ehtisham Abassi Finance Professor

·        India What happened to the Indian Economy and can it be explained in financial or structural terms? What are the impacts today on social and environmental and economic justice and what are the solutions. v

·        Dr Vinitae Apte, India Terre Foundation v One of our partners at The United Nations COP  Intermediate Technology

Friends Meeting House

Main Hall

Keynote: Antara Annemarie Borg FRSA

 Sounds of nature with Antara Annemarie Borg, DES Law Paris FRSA – Performance Coach/Composer, Photographer and Ocean Preservation Speaker.

Diving into whale song and the vibrations of nature (Tech ) microphone

Friends Meeting House

Main Hall

Yzbelle Mitchell Oxford University and LSE: Gen Z- The future of humanity- what happened to them and why it matters for everyone and all our futures- Changing the philosophy and paradigm to meet the needs, hopes and aspirations  of GENz

Naina  Harish:  Outlining  the challenges for Gen Z and the Hope for the future provided by the Green Economics  Institute- new ideas

Garden or Garden Room

Ancient weaving with modern day threads; exploring how we can strengthen connection and interaction with nature through art and traditional craft

With Eloise Smith Artist in Residence

Garden

Main Hall  PPT

The EVE ecological valuation engine, a satellite integrated framework for natural capital accounting at any spatial scale

Main Hall

Do we play or not? Expert speeches followed by a debate with everyone:

Anjikwi Mshelbwalla Trade A1 and the shrinking civil and public space, Democracy under serious threat. The consequences for the public

Yen Chit Chong – Economics and Trade A1 and the shrinking civil and public space, Democracy under serious threat (ppt)

PPT set up in Garden Room

Garden Room

Clean technologies, nickel, batteries, unequal structures in carbon markets and in technology, and the car industry globally

Library tbc

Main Hall

·        Social Justice in Action:  The Healing power of Nature in the context of Lifestyle Medicine – the new paradigm 

·        Zandrea Stewart

·        All our voices and the alignment to health and wellbeing – social justice in action

Garden Room

PPT

·        Actor network theory, post growth futures and systems thinking:

·        Rethinking ‘rational’: why relationships, not just numbers, should drive economic thinking”

·        Harry Cunningham Moralomics: Musk, meritocracy and mobility – the derivational heterogeneity of extreme wealth and its moral limits

·        Ms Niri Goyit -Womens Rights and Gender Expert v

·        Ms. Amina Aliyu -Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, and Accountability Expert  v

·        3. Ayeshah Inshirah -Malaysia Founder of the NGO ‘For Women’ v

Garden Room

17.00-17.25 PPT

·        Rohail Millan. (PPT) What Counts as a Forest?: Ecosystem Services, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Politics of Recognition. Ecosystems theories – forests and culture in India. Reforming ecosystem service-based forest governance to better incorporate indigenous knowledge and the politics of recognition

·        Ecosystems  and Forests

·        -Dr Mary Salazar, Amazonian Peruvian specialist researcher in Carbon Projects, economist, social communities, energy and solar energy. Economics of Climate Change. Tbc v Peru carbon and forests

·        Forest and ecosystems in Malaysia

·        Dr Norferyanti Kamarrudin Institute of Tropical Forestry, Malaysia v

Garden Room

Degrowing the meat system: an analysis of the trends, harms and alternatives to meat overconsumption

Vesco Paskalev (PPT)

Is cultured meat the new GMO? Public Perceptions and Participatory Regulation of Cultured Meat

Garden Room

PPT

22 years of the Green Economics Institute

Miriam Kennet with  Anjikwi Mshelbwala, Bianca Madison -Vuleta, Yen Chit Chong, and Prof Jack Reardon.

Emma Rossi’s Report: Presenting 22 years report of Green Economics and The Green Economics Institute -by Emma Rossi -Italy Green Economist.

How far have we come in 22 years: Opportunities at the Green Economics Institute 2026 and 2027: Opportunities for academic publishing, book publishing and ideas,  editing and writing, TV station, speaking, conferences, summer schools, education, policy making, campaigns, magazines, networking, announcing our brand new global assembly.

Back to Friends Meeting House for final tea and coffee and networking

Adjourn to the Kings Arms Pub (tbc)   a very historic Oxford drinking venue-owned by Wadham College and former haunt of Tolkein and many others.