Conference preliminary programme

ACCTING’s Final Conference

Empowering change: Building a fair and inclusive Green Deal 

 

Socially and economically marginalised groups are the first to be impacted not only by climate change, but also by environmental policies aimed to counteract climate change, which includes the Green Deal. Simultaneously, these groups are often key actors driving change. The EU-funded ACCTING project has been generating research on these effects and explored solutions to mitigate them.

For its final conference, ACCTING invites representatives of civil society, non-governmental organisations, policymakers, decision-makers, and other (research) projects and initiatives related to the Green Deal. Participants will explore together new leverages and better stories that help achieve a more socially just and inclusive Green Deal.

The conference starts with an introductory session, providing insights from the project’s gender+ intersectional analysis of behavioural change that can facilitate a socially just green transition. This is followed by three sessions focusing on leverages identified within ACCTING to develop innovative solutions for an inclusive Green Deal:

• Session 1: Disadvantaged people as key drivers for change: engaging with marginalised groups to co-create a just transition

• Session 2: Solving resistances to change: redefining the notion of public interest

• Session 3: Reimagining commons for an inclusive transition /OR/ Building new partnerships for behavioural change

Each session will include insights and better stories issued from sister projects, related initiatives, pilot projects when available, and conclude with insights from ACCTING’s research.

In parallel to the overall sessions, an exhibition space will spotlight better stories of initiatives for a just transition, particularly from the ACCTING pilot projects and GD projects, but open to all related initiatives.