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“Growth will halt at the global level within the next decades, one way or another. Either we choose our own limits, or the limits are forced upon us through ecosystem breakdown.” Meet Gaya Herrington at Folkemødet 2024! Tomorrow through Saturday, Gaya Herrington will be joining us at Bornholm this year's Folkemøde. Gaya is a global thought leader on sustainability and economic systems change. Her research examines how environmental, social, and economic factors interact and are interconnected. Gaya is an advisor to the The Club of Rome of Rome and a member of their Transformational Economics Commission under the Earth4All initiative. In 2021, her empirical analysis of the 1972 Limits to Growth report's predictions went viral, concluding that we are on a path to experiencing the limits to growth being forced upon us, with significant social, environmental, and financial consequences if humanity does not change its current destructive trajectory. Additionally, Gaya serves as Vice President of Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric. Catch Gaya at one of the events she will be speaking at: ✨ She will be diving into the role of new economic thinking in enabling a truly sustainable society and confronting the deadlocks of our current economic system with Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse and Rethinking Economics Danmark.   🌱 She will be discussing how we can create a new economic system and move towards future-fit policymaking together with our other international guest, Katherine Trebeck at Handlingsskibet. The event will be moderated by Michael Schøt and is co-organised with Østifterne, Roskilde Festival Gruppen and Rethinking Economics Danmark. 🔥 She will be debating how ecosystem breakdown and climate change pose a major systemic risk to our financial sector and a great threat to our pensions specifically at Politiken's stage. 🌎 She will be sharing insights from her empirical research on the limits to growth: how we can make a turnaround, get the economy back within planetary boundaries, and avoid global collapse.   See her full programme below or at Folkemødet’s website: https://lnkd.in/eeTQ_C-h Kara Djurhuus Laura Thatt Maj Larsen-Lechuga Esther Emborg Bünemann Elise Sydendal Sarah Steinitz Mads Falkenfleth Jensen WELA - Wellbeing Economy Lab Oxfam Danmark Nyt Europa Lotte Folke Kaarsholm Susanne Ditlevsen Jonas Jensen-Dharmaratne Gode Penge Jacob Rask

POLITIK FOR FREMTIDEN  Event på Folkemødet om fremtidens politiske og økonomiske system!  Torsdag d. 13. juni kl. 18.15-19.30 på H4 Handlingsskibet.   Sammen med Østifterne, Roskilde Festival Gruppen og Rethinking Economics Danmark sætter vi fokus på kortsigtethed i politiske beslutningsprocesser: Hvordan påvirker de politiske beslutninger vi tager på klima-, social-, og sundhedsområderne fremtidens samfund? Hvad kan vi gøre, for at sikre mere langsigtethed i det politiske og økonomiske system? Og hvilken rolle spiller økonomer og den økonomiske videnskab i den transformation?   Kom med, når to af verdens førende tænkere inden for trivselsøkonomi og økonomisk systemforandring, Katherine Trebeck og Gaya Herrington, gæster Folkemødet og bliv klogere på, hvordan vores politiske og økonomiske system leder til kortsigtede beslutninger med langsigtede konsekvenser. Efter samtalen debatterer et panel af eksperter, aktivister, og forskere oplægget i en dansk kontekst - hvor roden til problemet ligger og hvad vi kan gøre for at rette op på det. Mød bla. Mads Falkenfleth Jensen fra WELA - Wellbeing Economy Lab, Elise Sydendal fra Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse, Trine Løvenskjold fra Sygeplejestuderendes Landssammenslutning, Peter Kjær Kruse-Andersen fra Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen og Sarah Steinitz fra Analyse & Tal. Eventet modereres af komiker Michael Schøt.    Interviewet med Katherine og Gaya er på engelsk. Den efterfølgende paneldebat er på dansk.   Find eventet her: https://lnkd.in/dYm2tCPh Laura Thatt Kara Djurhuus

“Imagine an economy designed to serve people and planet, rather than the other way around.” Meet Katherine Trebeck at Folkemødet 2024!   At this year’s Folkemøde, we will be joined by Katherine Trebeck, political economist, author and advocate for a transition to a global wellbeing economy. Her significant contribution to spurring economic systems change include her roles as co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll and as instigator of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGos), both institutions that unite different actors and governments around a vision of a wellbeing economy at both national and global levels. Katherine is also a senior fellow at the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies and a board member of the CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity as well as on the board of WELA - Wellbeing Economy Lab. She also works as a financial and strategic advisor for The Next Economy in Australia.    At Folkemødet, Katherine will contribute with her expertise in many ways:   💡 She will be discussing how economic myths shape our society with Alexander Holm and Adam Hannestad at Politiken.  🌱  She will be diving into how to build an economic system and foster policymaking for the future at Handlingsskibet together with our other international guest, Gaya Herrington. The event will be moderated by Michael Schøt and is co-organised with Østifterne, Roskilde Festival Gruppen and Rethinking Economics Danmark. 💚 She will speak on the role of compassion can and should play in our economies, and how we must boot the notion that greed and competition yields efficiency and optimal outcomes. ⚖️ She will be discussing how a quest for global justice – economic and otherwise – is crucial for the green transition to in fact take succeed, with Rethinking Economics Danmark.    See her full programme below or at Folkemødet’s hjemmeside https://lnkd.in/dNMHpYdc Laura Thatt, Kara Djurhuus, Mads Falkenfleth Jensen, Maj Larsen-Lechuga, Elise Sydendal, Trine Løvenskjold, Peter Kjær Kruse-Andersen, Nyt Europa, Julie Metha Rosenkilde, Oxfam Danmark, Clara Grunnet, Joachim Peter Tilsted, Caroline Bessermann

Vi er gået sammen med Østifterne og Foreningen Roskilde Festival om at støtte etableringen af en ny tænketank, som har fokus på at fremme en økonomi, hvor mennesker kan trives og sikres høj livskvalitet samtidig med, at der tages hensyn til klima og natur. Tænketanken hedder WELA - Wellbeing Economy Lab (Wellbeing Economy Lab) og er stiftet af økonomerne Mads Falkenfleth Jensen og Arvid Aagaard Sihm samt tidligere senioranalytiker på Institut for Lykkeforskning Michael Birkjær.   “KR Foundation har valg at støtte WELA, fordi det er tydeligt, at klima, natur og menneskers trivsel presses af vores nuværende økonomiske system på en måde, som kan have katastrofale og potentielt uoprettelige følger. Der er derfor et stort behov for at opdatere vores samfundsøkonomiske vidensgrundlag, så det ikke er i konflikt med naturvidenskaben og kan hjælpe os med at løse de udfordringer, vi står over for i de kommende årtier. Her ser vi WELA som et vigtigt skridt i den rigtige retning,” siger Rosa Klitgaard Andersen, programdirektør i KR Foundation. Læs mere i Fundats: https://lnkd.in/dNqKXF-c

Do you want to help challenge vested interests obstructing and delaying climate action? KR Foundation is hiring a full-time programme officer to help manage, develop, and scale the foundation’s work on challenging the influence of vested interests that are obstructing and delaying climate action. This entails; scoping potential partners, assessing proposals, and convening of multiple stakeholders from researchers to investigators, litigators, activists, campaigners, and industry change makers to share experiences and strategies. To thrive in this role, we expect you to hold a social science master’s degree and have approx. 2-3 years of work experience. Experience in sectors such as ministries, PR and PA agencies, consulting, civil society organisations or similar is a plus. Possibility to work remotely, however, with minimum two workdays a week in the foundation’s office in central Copenhagen. Excellent written and oral English skills are a prerequisite. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dqNmYC4f

EVENT: Hvordan forholder danskerne sig til klima og den grønne omstilling? DeltagerDanmark og Electica udgav i foråret 2022 hvidbogen "De danske klimasegmenter". Den bidrog til en grundlæggende forståelse af befolkningens forhold til klima og den grønne omstilling, og det viste, at der er stor opbakning til ambitiøs klimaindsats på tværs af segmenter, der har meget forskellige værdier og normer. Hvidbogen er netop blevet opdateret med helt nye data, der afspejler, hvordan danskerne tænker og føler om nogle af de mest presserende klimaspørgsmål. Vi har inviteret fire eksperter i polling, politik og mobilisering til at tale om, hvordan vi kan forstå disse opdaterede indsigter i den nye politiske virkelighed. Dato: 13. december 2023 Tid: 16:00 - 17:30 Sted: Konferencesalen, Læderstræde 20, 1201 København K Mød: Pollster og Founding Partner, Opinion & The Other One Jesper Claus Larsen, Partner & Public Affairs Director at Rud Pedersen Public Affairs Sune Steffen Hansen, Managing partner i STRUCTURED Mikkel Wolf Rasmussen og Direktør hos Teknologirådet//DeltagerDanmark Rune Baastrup. Meld dig til her https://lnkd.in/djGvxtrC