Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

While the discourse on the need for systemic change of our economic system is slowly shifting in academia and civil society, we have yet to see this recognition consolidated in actual policy change in Europe. Meaningful action to tackle our systemic crisis is missing and instead there is a focus on symptomatic fixes to keep the current economy afloat. For example, the European Green Deal, promoted as Europe’s “new growth strategy”, follows the same logic.

Within this context, this workshop aims to discuss key leverage points and strategies to consolidate degrowth in EU policies. As civil society organisations working at EU level, we will share our strategies to advocate for degrowth thinking from an insider perspective and in relation to policies such as the 8th environmental action plan, the EU Economic Governance Review and the REPowerEU demand reduction of 5% of energy demand.

This will be followed by breakout groups discussing particular aspects to advance degrowth as a political project at EU level on topics including shaping the next European Commission’s ‘flagship’ 5-year programme to embody degrowth, a degrowth fiscal policy framework, sufficiency-based climate and energy policy, a degrowth approach to digital policy, and work and social policy. Out of these topics, we will let participants choose four groups based on their expertise and interest, and/or add others topic ideas if there is interest. Each of the breakout groups will be led by one expert from the organising team.

Info

Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 10:00
Duration: 01:30
Room: ZV-8-9
Type: Non-academic Session
Theme: Degrowth as a political project?

Links:

• iCalendar
• Example of our work at EU level: campaign on overconsumption