The Impacts of Trade and Investment Policies on the Prospects for a Just Transition in Europe and the World
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.
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.
Speakers and panelists
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Sara Murawski
Moderator, Specialist in fiscal policy and climate finance at the Sustainable Finance Lab (Netherlands)
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Lucia Barcena
Spanish-Mexican researcher at TNI, specialised in EU trade and investment policies and part of the Critical Raw Materials Observatory
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Luciana Ghiotto
Associate researcher at TNI and Professor of International Political Economy (UNSAM, Argentina)
