Planetary Health beyond growth
Green Templeton Lectures 2024
Thursday 15 February 2024 17:00 to 18:45Speakers: |
Catherine Howarth, ShareAction Chief Executive |
Catherine Howarth will posit that the global capital markets system, which invests savings and pension assets for billions of people, is not doing what it could to support either planetary health or human health. She will present examples and offer perspectives on why the finance system is failing in respect of planetary and public health. Catherine will then propose reforms and remedies to bring the finance system back into harmony with people and planet.
Kate Raworth will introduce the core concepts of Doughnut Economics, consider the respective roles of growth and balance in contemporary economic worldviews, and will explore the implications for planetary health. She will focus on discussing the many ways in which today’s economies are structurally dependent upon endless economic growth, and with respect to the role of business and finance, she will ask what kind of changes are required in the deep design of enterprise and of finance, if they are both to be in service to achieving, rather than undermining, planetary health.
About the speakers
Catherine Howarth OBE joined ShareAction as Chief Executive in 2008 and leads the NGO’s work to drive ambitious standards of responsible investment. Prior to this, she spent eight years as a campaigner with London Citizens, following studies at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.
She is a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s advisory committee on ESG and of the HM Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce. She served on the board of The Pensions Trust from 2008-2013 and on the board of the Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian Media Group, from 2015-2022. Catherine was named as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2014, recognised on the BBC Woman’s Hour Power List in 2020, and awarded an OBE for ‘services to sustainability’ in 2022. A regular commentator in the media, she tweets at @ca_howarth and posts on LinkedIn.
ShareAction works to harness the potential of the financial system to serve our planet and its people. It campaigns for responsible investment and regulation that drive up labour standards, shape healthier societies, and accelerate action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
Kate Raworth is a Senior Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and an ecological economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. Her international best-selling book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist, has been translated into more than 20 languages.
She is co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, working with cities, communities, teachers and companies to put these ideas into action, at doughnuteconomics.org
Location
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College
About the series
This is the second in the flagship Green Templeton Lectures 2024 on Planetary Health. The series will consider intersections with the stability of financial systems, economics beyond growth, and the legal process. The lectures will be convened by Research Fellow Dr SanYuMay Tun together with Governing Body Fellow Dr Marc Thompson and Research Fellow Dr Laurence Wainwright.
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More information
Please direct all queries about this event to academic.projects@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
Type: Lectures and Seminars
