environment
Laurent Lambert, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
- A sustainable transition. Overcoming the crises from Rio to Rio and beyond appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (18/4/2012)
- Turning water utilities green, à la World Bank appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (13/4/2012)
- Climate change as a catalyst for change or as a threat to environmental governance? appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (03/4/2012)
- Using skype, or ash clouds in the sky? New perspectives for the green debate appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (23/2/2012)
- Will your next job be truly green? It may depend on you appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (13/2/2012)
- Rio+20: reinventing hope? appearing in Europe and the Global Green Economy (30/1/2012)
- Cancun climate agreement on the need to show off any outcome? appearing in The Politics and Economics of Climate Change (12/12/2010)
Challenges and Opportunities for Europe in building a Global Green Economy
Two months before the Rio +20 United Nations conference on sustainable development, this three-day graduate workshop investigated how the concepts around a green economy can become powerful leverages for sustainable development and poverty eradication at both the European and global scales. Participants met in the run-up to Rio, which takes place 20 years after the first UN Conference on Environment and Development, to review achievements and key challenges ahead in terms of sustainable development, and to define the roles Europe should play to foster a global green economy, focusing on its political economy, geography and diplomacy. Click here to download the event poster
The modest advances on cutting carbon emissions reached in Durban at the end of 2011 are widely held to have only been possible thanks to the vigorous efforts of the EU contingent. On environmental matters, at least, Europe seems to be a key player. But can Europe itself demonstrate that it is economically possible, let alone beneficial, to be ‘green’? And can it lead the way towards a genuinely sustainable economy?
