As the climate crisis deepens and socioeconomic inequalities grow, escalating trade tensions between global powers are undermining urgent climate cooperation and reinforcing resource nationalism. In this context, it is crucial to examine how trade and investment regimes influence the paths toward a just transition.
This GreenPaths webinar explores the tensions between current global economic frameworks and the need for systemic socio-ecological transformation. Drawing on political ecology and critical political economy, we’ll discuss alternative policies that prioritise climate justice, democratic planning, and the rights of communities and workers.
Framed within broader debates on post-growth economics, decolonial climate action, and the restructuring of global production and consumption, this session brings together activist scholars from Europe and the Global South to reimagine trade and investment in support of transformative change.
Moderator:
- Sara Murawski works at the Sustainable Finance Lab on themes like fiscal policy, climate finance and degrowth. Previously, she was the coordinator of Handel Anders!, working on trade and investment treaties. She has worked in academia, at media, think tanks, ngo’s and for the Dutch Socialist Party in the national and European Parliament.
Speakers:
- Lucia Barcena
is a Spanish-Mexican researcher who has specialized in EU trade and investment policies. She has engaged in many international campaigns from TTIP to the Energy Charter Treaty. She has produced different research material specializing in investment protection (ISDS) and is now currently part of the Critical Raw Materials Observatory. - Luciana Ghiotto
is an associate researcher with the Transnational Institute (TNI) and specialises on trade and investment. She is a researcher in CONICET-Argentina, and Professor of International Political.
Agenda
16.00 – 16.05 Welcoming and introduction to the agenda.
16.05 – 16.20 Opening remarks
16.20 – 16.50 Roundtable discussion
16.50 – 17.05 Q&A session
17.05 – 17.15 Closing remarks
Join the GreenPaths team at the upcoming GreenPaths webinar on 24 April at 16:00 CET.
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