On 15-17 May 2023, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for the second EU Post-Growth Conference.
This three-days major event is a cross-party initiative of 20 Members of the European Parliament, supported by a wide-range of partner organisations, which follows the success of the Post-Growth 2018 conference. A landmark opportunity for discussion across institutional boundaries and with European citizens, the conference involves stakeholders from EU and national policymaking, academia, social partners and civil society organisations.
Set out to challenge conventional policy-making in the European Union, the aim of the multi-stakeholder symposium is to redefine societal goals across the board, in order to move away from GDP growth as the main political goal—as the basis of our development model. The conference is putting into practice the idea of a post-growth future-fit EU that combines social wellbeing and viable economic development with the respect of planetary boundaries.
Participants include the heads of the European Commission, Council and Parliament. CUSP director Prof Tim Jackson, a co-developer of the conference, is amongst the expert speakers joining the discussions.
Links
Video recordings of all the panels and plenaries are available via the conference website: beyond-growth-2023.eu. The transcripts of Tim Jackson’s interventions are published on the CUSP blog. The opening speech by Ursula von der Leyen can be found on the European Commission’s website.
Related Reading
Jackson, T 2021. Post Growth. Life after Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Jackson, T 2020. Wellbeing Matters—Tackling growth dependency. An Economy That Works Briefing Paper Series, No 3. London: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth, February 2020.
Jackson, T and P Victor 2020. The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity-A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada. Ecological Economics, Vol 177.
Jackson, T 2019: The Post-Growth Challenge: Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to Growth. Ecological Economics, Vol 156: 236-246.
Jackson, T 2017. Prosperity Without Growth – Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow. London: Routledge.
