Adaptation to a New Economic Reality - Wellbeing economy for the 21st century

Adaptation to a New Economic Reality - Wellbeing economy for the 21st century, is a AdaptEconII conference and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement.

The Conference will be held in english.

Schedule:

9:00 – 9:15 Setting of AdaptEconII conference - Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland

Natural resources and infrastructure – Chair: David Collste and Marie Schellens

9:15 – 9:30 Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir – The consequences of exponential growth
9:30 – 9:45 Julian Torres – Is closing the loop enough?
Lessons from steel towards upstreaming environmental solutions
9:45 – 10:00 Florian Dierickx – Circularity of materials
10:00 – 10:15 Maartje Oosdijk – The story of fish in the N Atlantic
10:15 – 10:30 Eduard Nedelciu – The story of phosphorous
10:30 – 10:45 Luca Coscieme – The paradoxes of economics
10:45: – 11:15 Coffee

Societal impacts – Chair: Jennifer Hinton, Ganna Gladkyk and Therese Bennich

11:15 – 11:30 Marie Schellens – Natural resource conflicts
11:30 – 11:45 Jenneth Parker – The importance of ethics
11:45 – 12:00 Lisa Hough-Stewart – The new economic story we all need
12:00 – 12:15 Davie Collste – Achieving the SDGs
12:15 – 12:30 Jóhanna Gísladóttir – Corruption and resource management
12:30 –13:30 Lunch

The new economy and modelling – Chair: Maartje Oosdijk, Florian Dierickx and Eduard Nedelciu

13:30 – 13:45 Griffin Carpenter – And it is fish!
13:45– 14:00 Harald Sverdrup – WORLD6/7 modelling of the world economy
14:00 – 14:15 Jennifer Hinton – The critical role of profit in sustainable economies
14:15 – 14:30 Robert Costanza – Overcoming our societal addiction to growth
14:30 – 14:45 Katherine Trebeck – Economics of arrival
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee

What to measure and new perspectives – Chair: Julian Torres and Jóhanna Gísladóttir

15:15 – 15:30 Ida Kubiszewski – Wellbeing economy indicators
15:30 – 15:45 Claudia Meglin – Measuring what matters
15:45 – 16:00 Lene Rachel Andersen – The rosegarden economy
16:00 – 16:15 AdaptEconII researchers – Key results and recommendations from the AdaptEconII project
16:15 – 16:55 Questions and answer session for all speakers of the day
16:55 – 17:00 Closing of conference