Organization:Green Economics Institute

6th Annual Green Economics Conference at Mansfield College, Oxford University

The Green Economics Institute was founded in the United Kingdom in 2004 and has grown into one of the largest green research centres in the world. It is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation which operates in 47 different countries, leading a global movement for change through green economics. It is operated by a core team of 20 economists and researchers, including Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann, and directs a network of 5000 professionals on whose work it can draw for specialist inputs into bids and projects. It publishes an international networking magazine, The Green Economist. The Institute also offers training programmes and examinations to obtain a Masters in Green Economics, and runs a large international internships programme during the summer. Its central offices are based in Reading, Berkshire.

Green Economics

As defined by the Green Economics Institute, green economics is "Progressive Economics, reclaiming economics for all people everywhere - women, nature, other species, the planet and its systems".

Green Economics Institute Founder and CEO Miriam Kennet describes green economics as:

Green Economics is the green movement's challenge to mainstream orthodoxy in economics and it is gaining ground globally and in the corridors of power as the best alternative to solving climate change, the credit crunch, poverty and biodiversity losses. It is about providing reclaiming the practices and policies of economics, for all people everywhere, nature, other species, the planet and its systems. It is about provisioning for the needs, impacts, effects and responsibilities, for everyone and everything on the planet.

Founders

An interactive Green Economics workshop in Petersfield, July 2011

The Green Economics Institute was founded by Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann in 2004.

Miriam Kennet, co-founder, director and CEO, received an MAIB in Economics and International Business from South Bank University, and most recently an MSC in Environmental Science and Economics from the University of Oxford. She has researched into environmental economics at South Bank University, Oxford University, and Keele University.

Volker Heinemann, co-founder and director of the Institute, holds a master's degree in Economics. He is a former German Green Councillor and is currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Green Economics He is author of Die Oekonomie der Zukunft, a book that investigates future economic trends in the developed world. It is based on the idea that a new economic science, free from any neo-liberal or other normative bias is needed: green economics.

Michelle Gale (USA) is our current Non Executive Director and has been in post for 10 years. She heads up our COP UNFCC Climate Delegations Diplomacy and also is the co -author and editor of many of our books. She is a specialist in International Relations, and Economics and Human Rights Law and gender issues.

Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) heads up our academic work at the www.geiacademy.org. . She is a specialist and Professor of international finance.

The Green Economics Institute Trust The Green Economics Institute Trust, greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org, is a Registered Charity No 111768 (Ref: The Charities Commission) which was founded in 2009 by Judith Felton with founding trustees, Jacob Sanders, Miriam Kennet, Volker Heinemann and others. Its board of trustees is very active and holds regular Exhibition Stands roughly one a month around Europe to advise people what they can do to implement our research and ideas. The Charity spreads its ideas by educating the public in all aspects of Green Economics and Social and Environmental Justice, in particular it shared the offices with Launchpad a charity for the homeless, and also with the Ethical Property Company.

Social Justice It has supported the publication of numerous books on aspects of social justice, for Example The Philosophy of Social Justice which was very popular at the Paris UNFCC COP21 Climate Conference showing the link between social justice, diversity and solving climate change issues. It also publishes regularly on climate change and supports the publication of books on the green economy.

Changing the Narrative of Migration The Trust has also been active in the migration debate- promoting the idea of Changing the Narrative of Migration with 4 conferences on the subject and academic papers and a book ISBN:9781907543210 discussing other ways of looking at migration and its true history, believing that xenophobia and intolerance are contrary to the introduction of a green economy. More information about the Green Economics Institute Trust can be found at its website www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org . Its email is greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org.

Mental Health and Sustainability The Trust is also very active in promoting mental health as a very important factor in understanding the human difficulty in changing track and stopping runnaway climate change, pollution and a range of difficult subjects. It works with a range of top pyschiatrists and many of them inform the profession and government on this issue. We have also published a book on Health, The Greening of Health and Healthcare, which has been very influential not least being used by Chinese government official when planning the next phase of health developments in China. Law: Whose Law is it anyway? The Trust is very active in philosophy and the law internationally, working with many partner lawyers. It is currently engaged in a round of lectures, talking about how many of the worlds worst ever atrocities have been committed under the cover of the ruling laws or governments so that victims have no recourse to law whilst this has taken place. We are advising people to consider, who is the law for and who does it protect, and who has access to it. It is necessary to sort this out if we are considering the role of the commons, and the rights of ordinary people to access ordinary resources, water for example, so Whose Law is it anyway? is a major project developing at the institute led by Maria Fernanda Madi (Brazil and the Netherlands).

Diversity The Trust has always promoted diversity in all its activities, publications and events, as well as acting as a beacon for others. It is currently advising several other Institutions on how to achieve and maintain real diversity in organisations as a means of ensuring social and environmental justice.

'Chair of Trustees' is Marlyn Lee - Hughes, more information can be found at: greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org. She is a specialist in both science, trained at Edinburgh and a lecturer in English. Mrs Hughes runs our Registered Charity The Green Economics Institute Trust and its work in 'Educating the Public in all aspects of Green Economics and Social and Environmental Justice.

Research and Conferences

The Green Economics Institute's Green Economics Research is focused on three key aspects:

1. The reform of mainstream economics by means of robust research into alternatives and existing theories, and how these can be made more relevant and practical.
2. The creation and development of the new "Greening the Economy" discourse of green economics.
3. Research into policy formulation and implementation which would provide economics with the philosophy, methodology, ontology and instruments to bring social and environmental justice.

'Research Activity and Website' The Green Economics Institute now has its own Research Academy, the GEIAcademy. Its website can be found at www.GEIAcademy.org and the Academy is Headed up by Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) co- author of many of the institutes books.www.geiacademy.org.

Additionally the Green Economics Institute is an official 'Research Institute of the United Nations Climate Process'. UNFCC COP (RINGO) and is very active in research into climate change methodology and science and takes a global lead in diplomacy in areas of Ambition Enhancement for climate change. Please visit

The Institute's philosophy is summarized as follows:

"The aim is that as a result more people enjoy a better quality of life. There is a focus on corporate activities and the globalisation process and their impacts on a range of stakeholders including indigenous peoples, minorities, women, people in less developed countries and non human species and the biosphere and also the conventional wisdoms of trickle down theories, growth and development."

Green Economics Institute Conferences The Green Economics Institute runs several Annual International Conferencesand also sending one of the largest delegation to the UNFCC United Nations Climate Conferences (COP) as well as themed events throughout the year .

The main conference which takes place every summer is the Annual Green Economics Institute Conference,, currently in its 14th year, held every summer at The University of Oxford. In June 2019 this conference will be held at St Hugh's College, The University of Oxford.The Green Economics Institute now has a dedicated conferences and bookings website www.geiconferences.org where bookings can be made and Calls for Papers can be found..

Photos of the Green Economics Institute's Actitivies Some of the Green Economics Institute's Activities can be found in our very large activity and speeches library of photos on flickr photo sharing:If you do choose to use our lovely pictures please always cite that you found the photo on The Green Economics Institute's flickr site and our website where you found it.Green Economics Institute's Flickr Photo Sharing Site:

Conference at the Green Economics Institute are held on many of the following themes: Women's Unequal Pay Conference, ( five conferences), the Green Built Environment and Long-Termism Conference, Green Economics Methodology Conferences and many others. 2 Tonnes of Carbon Conference as an official cultural event of COP22 Bonn, UNFCC United Nations at Bonn University Club 2017, and videos from speaker interviews can be found at https://vimeo.com/user78993274 . We also run conferences on The Greening of Food, Farming and Agriculture and have taken part in Prince Charles' excellent Initiative to clean up the food chain and agriculture and to move to stop cruel farming practises as a result of our lovely book, the Greening of Food, Farming and Agriculture ISBN:9781907543449.

Publications

Green Economics Institute Publishing House The Green Economics Institute has its own publishing company, Green Economics Institute Publishing with its website [3]. It has over 100 titles on a range of issues on social and environmental justice, the future economy, methodologies for stopping runnaway climate change, changing the narrative of migration and many many more. Its network of 15,000 people around the world from all walks of life send in writing and information about contemporary concerns and this unique formula gives its publishing house a true people's voices flavour from around the world.

Green Economics Institute Books Most recent books include Understanding Corruption by Dr E Tezza and Lavinia Tezza,(Italy) (2018) Sustainability and the United Nations by Dr Arturo Herman,(Rome Institute, Italy) (2018) and Green Investment by Professor Maria Madi, (Brazil) (2017) and Green Economy for Green Economics (2018) by Professor Natalie West, (Shillong Managment University, India) The Institute also produces several publications, such as its networking magazine The Green Economist The Green Trustee ISSN 1751-0562 and books the Green Economics Reader and the Handbook of Green Economics - A Practitioner's Guide.These can all be found at .

'Briefings for Governments' The Institute also produces Briefings for government for example on transport, launched in the House of Commons, and Books' which are used by for example the United Nations and many different governments around the world to inform policy. .

Academic Journals' The Institute has one of the few green academic journals in the world, The International Journal of Green Economics,now in its 12th year, published by Academic Publishers Inderscience which is founded and launched in 2006, . To publish in the journal please email the Editor Miriam Kennet to discuss your paper info@geibooks.org.uk and greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com, and its suitability for the journal. We foster non standard writers, as well as more experienced writers, diversity and new ideas and innovation.

[Specialist Climate Change Briefings and Information] The Institute also has a number of websites with information for people including its specialist climate change website which provides readers with information about its latest theories and contributions to stopping runaway climate change. It has a very active United Nations COP regular Official Research Delegation.

Green Economics Institute activities

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  Interactive Workshop on the Green Economics Model at Mansfield College, Oxford University

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  Meredith Hunter, Sir Crispin Tickell, Ewa Larsson, Oliver Tickell and Miriam Kennet at the 6th Annual Green Economics Conference

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  CEO Miriam Kennet at the National Oceanography Centre, where she made a speech about Green Economics

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  Playing croquet at Mansfield College, Oxford University before the green economics gala dinner

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  A Green Economics Institute stall at the Green Fair in London

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  CEO Miriam Kennet makes a speech about Green Economics at the House of Commons

Green Economics Institute's Partners in Activities including the following:

   Green European Foundation
   European Network of Political Foundations
   Bäuerliche Erzeugergemeinschaft Schwäbisch Hall – BESH
   Inderscience Academic Journal Publishers
   The International Journal of Green Economics
   The Green Economics Institute
   Green Economics Limited
   The Green Economist Members’ Magazine
   Green Economics Books
   The Green Economics Institute Publishing House
   The Green Trustee Magazine
   The Green Student Magazine
   Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
   South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE)
   Suriname Technology Education Research and Rehabilitation for Environment Policy Centre (TERRE Policy Centre)
   Zimbabwe  United Nations Climate Partner
   Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA)
   Water Safety Initiative Foundation (WASIF)
   Seoul International Law Academy (SILA)
   Coalition for Our Common Future (COCF)
   E.R.A Environmental Sustainable Law 
   We are an official United Nations Climate Change Partner
   We are an official United Nations Research Orgnisation (Ringo)