Monday, September 1st, 2025
Summer School -Green Visions, Green Economy, Green Futures, Green Careers
Oxford Friends Meeting House 43 St Giles' Oxford OX1 3LW United Kingdom
Details
International 1 week Summer School 1st -7- September 2025
At Friends Meeting House, Oxford, UK
Inspiring Change: Low Carbon Economies, Low Carbon Futures, Low Carbon Careers.
Green Visions, Green Economy, Green Research, Green Jobs, Green Careers,
Inspiring Change.
Introduction to the programme
Setting the scene- the world today- inherent contraditions, perverse incentives, investment trails, and investment time lag to the future. Theories of change making. The Golden Age of investment in a cycle. Tracking a pathway to a sustainable future- the just transition, building back better, the race to zero, enhancing climate ambition and many other initiatives and narratives from around the world.
2 Expert speakers
Participatory Workshops
Health of all living creatures on the planet
The human drivers of environmental change: Social constructs and the economy
The issues in the pandemic age- human and health of living things under threat.
The human and species impacts: Pressures, impacts, species migration
The life cycle, youth, middle age, ageing.
Social welfare issues in the pandemic age- the changing human demographics. Historicial and future trends -green narratives.
Green Economy, Green Finance, Green Trade, Green Budgets, Green Management of Economies, The values, valuation and valuing of green economies, green deals, green investment and finance programmes. Climate finance and biodiversity programmes.
2 Expert Lectures
Workshops with worked examples
Social support, equality of distribution, wealth concentration avoidance regimes and green ideas, Equity, preventing poverty, green theories for fairness and distribution and meeting basic needs. UBI etc. Contraction and convergence- Introducing the literatures. Taxations.
2 Expert Lectures
Workshops with worked examples
Green visions for the future;
Green Ideas, green theories, green solutions, green regimes. Green Jobs, green careers -building a green world.
2 Expert speakers
Workshops with worked examples
Graduation Ceremony with inspirational speakers:
Student speeches and workshops presenting their learning
Certificates for all participants.
This summer school is supported by materials from The Green Economics Institute, including its research programme, Green Economics Institute Research Group, its Peer Reviewed Academic Journal -The
International Journal of Green Economics-
and the Books from The Green Economics Institute Publishing House.
www.geibooks.org.uk
, our vimeo channel, our websites www.greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk, our flickr photos, our facebook, instagram, and our twitter accounts. Our diplomatic channels are part of our global network. Our work also feeds into our official United Nations Delegations.
Please book early- as the last few were sold out and very popular
The summer schools are suitable for CPD
Proposed Programme Schedule of Lectures
Monday Week 1:
Morning:
Introductions and welcome
Lecture
Orientation for Oxford Workshop
Lunch
Afternoon
Tour of Oxford
Day 2 Week 1 :
Lecture
Lunch
Lecture
Day 3 Week 1
Morning Lecture
Lunch
Day 4 Week 1
Morning Summary workshop
Keynote
Lunch
Lecture
Day 5 Week 1
Morning Summary workshop
Keynote
Lunch
Wine Tasting
Weekend Oxford conference- 1-2 days
Presentations from students and other participants
Keynote ideas and papers from speakers, lecturers etc
Key note speeches Certificates