Making a new contract with nature in 2021- Green Economics Institute Biodiversity Summit

Preparing for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference Conference of Parties (COP15) the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) 15.30-19.30 – PM UK time

Biodiversity- the big new story in 2021. Stopping the 6th Ever Mass extinction of species, creating diversity and inclusion in nature.

It is well known that expert opinion points to our maltreatment of nature as the leading cause of most pandemics in history including the current one. However with our renewed industrialisation of food, this time its bigger and different and more deeply engrained in our economics and food and agriculture systems.

Our utter lack of respect of nature has meant we have now managed to wipe out a large percentage of insects and other animals and this presents a real and present danger to us.

How did we do something so catastrophic, how did we not even notice it happening and how on earth can we turn this round and move forward into an age of caring and sharing the planet with our neighbours.

The United Nations is running 2 major conferences this year which will address some of this. The IPBES has issued a number of incredibly important benchmark reports as has the IPCC and the UNFCCC. One of these will be in May in Kanmung in China

. We take you through what they mean and what initiatives are out there to help us through and how you personally can get involved and do something about this, for your own sake and for future generations.

The green economics institute has always taken a lead in warning that this was happening- we are very sad that we were correct – now come and find out how it all works and what you can do.

In the light of the Desgupta Review on biodiversity and the initiatives at COP 26 in Glasgow there is real impetus this year to privatise and commodify what is left of nature. Today the weight of all human objects is greater than natural ones, plastic will become the most common thing in the sea- more than fish. All justified by profit and greed. This state of affairs cannot last as we have seen with the shock of covid. Nature really will bite back. We need to stop all this and think very deeply about our role in nature and get a grip rather fast. This conference attempts to unravel the catastrophic mess of economics, politics and philosophy that got us in this sorry state.

Making a new contract with nature and the biocene.

Come along to this workshop and find out much much more

Register today here to hear experts give us the information and then participate in discussions about what we can all do together.

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Programme 15.30-19.30- PM UK time

Making a new contract with nature in 2021- Green Economics Institute Biodiversity Summit

Preparing for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference Conference of Parties (COP15) the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and the UN COP 26 Glasgow, Scotland

15.30 -16.20 Introductory Session A

The need for nature- making a new contract with Nature- Recalibrating our relationship with the entire natural world and making an entire new philosophy.

Mainstream Economic Options- what are they offering and how do they differ.? Green wash or making a difference:Policy choices for Nature based solutions, Nature positive agenda, Ecosystem services – environmental economics -ecological economics, circular economy, stakeholder capitalism–

Co- Chairs: Sukriti Anand and Marlyn Hughes

Speakers:

Dr Vandana Shiva, India Author Monocultures. Seed Savers, Founder and Director of Seed saving Institute ‘-Navdanya’ and many other influencial books and speeches.

Bianca Madison- Vuleta- Human relationships with nature. (UK, Denmark, Croatia, Italy)

Dorothy Nalubega, Biodiversity Loss in Uganda because of the attack on our forests and natural resources (Uganda )

Dr Asia Mohammed (Sudan ) IPBES United Nations Expert Biologist economist

16.20-16.35 In troductory Session B: Introducing the Super Year for Nature- IPBES and United Nations COP15 Kunming, Biodiversity Conference in 2021. Opportunity to take part in our United Nations Delegations. -Ideas to take to IPBES and the United Nations and inputs and participation. Next steps – imputs to our main conference and to the United Nations and other initiatives to address this threat. All participants and discussion– Summer School and Biodiversity one course.COP26 climate conference Glasgow November 2021

Speaker Miriam Kennet

Break 10 minutes 16.35-16.45

Session 1- 16.45-17.30 Expert speakers presentations

Chair Marlyn Hughes and Bianca Madison – Vuleta

-The situation in nature in 2021 Setting the Scene–Results of scientific reports- and research. the shocking state of nature and how humans have wiped most of it out. How this has helped create a series of pandemics and a new environment which threatens our future.

Speakers include

Dr Susan Canney, Research Associate at the Zoology Department, University of Oxford and author at the Green Economics Institute – Human-nature co-existence: a case study from Mali.

RT Hon Lijiana Poposkova former MP North Macedonia The water missusment and damage on biodiversity by mining, send digging and hydropower plants in Balkan region. A mass destruction of nature and species.

Q and A

17.30-17.45 Break out session sharing stories together

Session 2 – Expert speakers and debate with participants 17.50 -18.45

The Biodiversity Initiatives and activities in 2021 COP15 IPBES

How to deal with this- solutions, philosophical adjustments needed. Different paths and policy choices- humans at a cross roads. The International institutions such as the United Nations, The IPBES, President Macrons -One Planet Summit, Prince Charles Terra Carta etc. what are the initiatives offering-what are they offering and how do they differ.

Chairs : Sukriti Anand and Marlyn Hughes

Speakers include:

Baronness Natalie Bennett, UK House of Lords.

Dr Asia Mohamed, University of Khartoum Sudan, Economist, United Nations-IPBES lead Africa-Green Economics Institute Research Group TBC

Break 15 minutes 18.45-19.00

19.00-19.25 Panel 3-

Chair Bianca Madison – Vuleta and Leena Ahmed

Facilitator Miriam Kennet

Case studies of how biodiversity continues to be threatened :

1. Malaysia Tropical Forestry: Tropical forest dilemmas as developing nation

Speaker Dr Norferyanti Kamarrudin Tropical Forest Institute, Malaysia.

2. The Okavango Delta- Oil and Gas Exploitation on traditional Indigenous San Lands

Speakers : Max Muyemburuko, Chairperson of the Karango East and West Community Forestry Association .- .explains the issues and what is happening

The Okavango Delta- Oil and Gas on San Lands which have been matrifocally sustainably managed for millenia by Indigenous San People in Botwsana and Namibia – under threat from oil and gas exploration – why? What does tell us about how to manage biodiversity and what really matters.? What are real survival solutions-with the precautionary principle? Is time to adopt a Green economy and Deep ecology and existence value approaches. The leader of the campaign is Max who will be representing the San Peoples.. He will explain the traditional tribal consultation. But basically some communities didn’t know about the drilling until it started and affected thecommunities gardens where some ommunities are living 200 meters from the drilling sites.

Miranda Brown expert researcher into protest groups.

Participatory Debate with all participants: Methodologies of preserving life on earth. Matrifocal biodiversity stewardship by the Indigenous San People now fighting off encroachment by oil and gas in one of the most wonderful areas of wildlife in the world

19.25-19.30 Conclusions and Next Steps

The Green Economics Institute delegati0on to, IPBES and United Nations COP15 Kunming, Biodiversity Conference in 2021. Opportunity to take part in our United Nations Delegations. -Ideas to take to IPBES and the United Nations and inputs and participation. Next steps – imputs to our main conference and to the United Nations and other initiatives to address this threat. All participants and discussion– Summer School and Biodiversity one course.COP26 climate conference Glasgow November 2021

Speaker Miriam Kennet

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Conference Information Flyer Here

Green Economics and the role of nature (Kennet 2006)

Over the last few hundred years, mainstream economics has tamed and used nature as an expendable given resource, and has only valued scarce resources. Nature is abundant and therefore has been treated as a ‘free good’ and resource, and has been disregarded even though it is becoming more apparent that nature holds up the world economy and it is becoming more visibly fragile and ‘scarce’. Goldsmith (2005) shows that Environmental Economics does attempt to adjust neo-liberal economics to the needs and costs of nature. However, this only works if the adjustments are small, whereas if it tries to adjust to the whole of nature’s carrying capacity, which Goldsmith argues it does, then clearly the discipline of economics needs to be rewritten in order to include and to take into account the role of nature. This is the work of Green Economics.

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