‘Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy’ is a high-level, international policy conference organised under the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, as a contribution to the International Labour Organization-led Global Coalition for Social Justice.

Held at ILO Headquarters in Geneva, and free to follow online, this public event will bring together leading scholars, diplomats, UN officials, policymakers, trade unions, employers’ organisations, civil society organisations, and social movements from around the world to discuss strategies to confront the intertwined crises of poverty, inequalities and ecological breakdown, beyond the limited imagination of economic growth orthodoxy.

As environmental collapse accelerates, inequalities widen within and between countries, and economic precarity becomes pervasive, the long-standing assumption that economic growth alone can reduce inequalities and end poverty is falling apart. What remains is an urgent challenge: how can societies secure social justice, economic security and human dignity without relying on a development model that deepens extraction, exclusion and ecological harm?

Speakers will include Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Executive Chair of Earth4All, as well as Earth4All Transformational Economics Commission members Jayati Ghosh and Kate Pickett.

The event will also see the launch of the 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵, a collaborative effort by UN agencies, civil society, unions, and academic experts including Earth4All representatives who have been working since 2024 to identify proposals that can achieve social progress and wellbeing without relying on perpetual economic growth.