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Valuing our future

  • 11 March 2019

On 22 April, 2021, the Earth4All initiative hosted an event “Transformational economics: valuing our future” at the first Nobel Prize Summit.

The event was designed to explore how to accelerate economic transformation and the role of philanthropy in supporting this transformation. Watch again here.

Transformational economics: valuing our future

Event programme:

Opening

Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Co-President, Club of Rome) and Johan Rockström (Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

In conversation with Andrew Steer (President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund)

Accelerating Transformation Panel

Chair: Per Espen Stoknes (Director, Centre for Green Growth, Norwegian Business School)

Speakers:

  • Sharan Burrow (General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation)
  • Jayati Ghosh (Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  • Ilona Otto (Professor, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz)
  • Carlota Perez (Honorary Professor, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London)
  • Jennifer Hinton (Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre)

Funding Transformation Panel

Chair: Leslie Johnston (CEO, Laudes Foundation)

Speakers:

  • Ellen Dorsey (Executive Director, Global Wallace Fund)
  • Tom Steinbach (Executive Director, Sea Change Foundation)
  • Felicitas von Peter (Managing Partner, Active Philanthropy)

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