History

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A Chronology Timeline  of The Green Economics Institute Trust

 

Background Texts as the Discourse Emerges  
Pigou  The Economics of Welfare 1920
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring 1962
The coming of space ship earth: Boulding 1966
Garret Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons 1968
Georgescu Roegens The Entropy Law and the Economic Process 1971
Small is beautiful: E F Schumacher  1973
The Gaia Hypothesis: James Lovelock  1979
The other  economics summitt (TOES) 1984
Our Common Future: Gro Harlem Brundtland 1987
Steady State Economics: Herman Daly 1992
The Green Economy: Michael Jacobs 1991
Wealth Beyond Measure: Paul Ekins 1992
For Our Common Good: Daly and Cobb  
Blue Print for a Green Economy series of books- David Pearce 1990w
   
The Green Economics Institute  
Economics of the 21st Century Conference London  Miriam Kennet 1995
Green Economics: Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People’s Needs: Green Audit  co edited. 1st book on Green Economics 1999 1999
We participate in Tim Jackson’s Growth Book, conference at the British Government  Sustainable Development Commision. 2009
   
The Green Economics Institute Founded to provide research support for her academic journal 2003
The International Journal of Green Economics: Academic Journal Founded by Miriam Kennet  with an academic publishing house 2004
1st ever Green Economics  Institute Conference at Oxford University run by  Miriam Kennet at Mansfield College, her alma matter 2005
Green Students Programme founded by Yann Raineau 2005
We run our first ever training course at the University of Oxford- Mansfield College after training and funding by The Higher Education Academy 2006
Dr Jeff Turk PHD Yale and CERN joins the Institute 2006
The Stern Review on the costs of climate change  2007
Green Jobs Initiative ILO 2007
Green Economics Interns College Founded by Sophie Henstridge 2008
Launch of The Green Economy UN Geneva UNEP Miriam Kennet 2008
We are on the founding documents of the Green European Foundation and the founding documents of The European Network of Political Foundations 2009
The Green Economics Institute Trust- A Registered Charity is founded by its first Director Judith Felton, an expert in charity administration. On the board were Miriam Kennet, Volker Heinemann, Paul Kennet and Jacob Sanders.(see our introducing our trustees for current trustees.) 2009
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky joins our team 2008
Michele Gale Joins the Institute 2008
Gower Publishing  and Ashgate Academic Press – (now part of Routledge), initiates our Green Economics Book series ‘The Plan for The Planet’ by Ian Chambers and John Humble and also ‘The Economics of Abundance’ Book by Professor Wolfgang Hoerschele 2008
The Green New Deal Published 2008
We address the PPE society at Oxford University 2009
We run our first ever Green Economics Institute Green Economics Training course with the Green European Foundation with the Green European Foundation and it is videoed and the video – in the spanish language wins an award 2009
We set up our United Nations Climate Team and attend COP15 at Copenhagen  Headed up by Michelle Gale and Miriam Kennet and attended by Naomi Baster- we run our first event 2009
We join the newly launched European Network of Political Foundations 2009
We speak in the French Senate 2009
We speak in the Austrian Parliament 2009
United Nations TEEB Report on biodiversity costs – we participate in the process and its author attends our annual conference at Mansfield College, University of Oxford 2010
Our first book we have published by The Green Economics Institute Publishing -The Green Economics Reader edited by Katie Black and Miriam Kennet is published 2010
Schumacher Society holds a special Economics Development Week Closed Seminar  in which we participate in as a keynote speaker 2010
‘Il libro del Anno – the Trecanni’ Famous year books from Italy- we publish our chapter ‘Green Economy  written by Miriam Kennet and Michelle Gale and published in Italian 2010
The Theoretical and Praticable study of Accounting for Forest in China Book by Professor Zhang Ying -Beijing Institute of Forestry Publication  published in Mandarin Chinese language 2010
‘Environment and Sustainable Development’ book edited by Klavins, Leal Finho and Zaloksnis in Latvia is published by the Univeristy of Latvia with  Uppsala University with our chapter in it 2010
‘100 words 200 visionaries book’ features Miriam Kennet as one of the visionaries and is edited by William Murtha 2010
First two  Handbooks books in our own books  series launched,  Handbook of Green Economics, Eleni Courea et al.  and The Citizens Income by Clive Lord and edited by Judith Felton and we have 100 in 2019 2011
We provide training in the United Kingdoms Cabinet Office in participation with the Treasury 2011
Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education edited by Jack Reardon published by Routledge- we contribute a chapter 2011
We  become part of the UK governments leadership training school and there is a celebratory  team event  and launch in the House of Lords 2011
We attend the Frankfurt bookfair with I Press of Hong Kong and Paths International Publishing  experts 2011
We run a series of lectures at Bolzano University and to the Regional Government officials on the future of the economy in the region in Italy and at EURAC European Research Centre 2011
‘Vide un ekonomia’ book  edited by Professor Atstaja and Professor Dimante, Professor Brivers, Miriam Kennet, Inga Sina, Lavinia, et al, our authors and members,   is published in Latvia  in Latvian with our chapter in it 2011
We publish a chapter in Rosa Luxembourg foundations briefing report on sustainable development published in German 2011
Miriam Kennet is nominated and awarded- one of 100 most powerful unseen  women in the world by One World Action Charity and awarded by Jon Snow of the BBC 2011
We give several keynote addresses in the Scottish Parliament 2011, 2013, 2015
Our next books- Voices of Africa Edited by Amana Winchester et al and The Green Built Environment edited by Judith Felton and Miriam Kennet are published 2011
Kristina Jociute joins the Green Economics Institute as its manager 2011
Millionth visitor to Green Economics Institute website July 2010
BBC Oxford, makes  a special programme about the life and work of our director Miriam Kennet 2011
We run a special training course for officials of all the former soviet Balkan countries about sustainability held in Montenegro 2011
We give a keynote speech at Alicante University and a radio interview nearby 2011
We train top uk civil servants in Admiralty Arch in Pall Mall 2011
We  run 5 womens unequal pay and poverty conferences over several years 2009-2014
We run the first ever green economics retreat in Glastonbury 2011
We train treasury officials in the Treasury 2011
We run a special training course for the Balkan officials held in Venice International University 2011
We speak at the Fabian Society at Cambridge University 2011
CEO speaks in House of Commons UK Parliament 2011
RIO +20 Sustainable Development Summit Features Green Economics 2012
Launch of Ashgate Academic Press series on philosophy of the 21st century 2012
Launch of first ever Masters in Green Economics 2012
Launch of first ever PhD in Green Economics 2012
Swedish Environment Minister uses our women’s book to inform policy 2012
The Green Economics Institute speaks at European Central Bank strategy meeting 2012
The Green Economics Institute attends the Stockholm +40 event as a keynote speaker and  which is held in the Nobel Prize Hall 2012
Natalie Bennet a long standing member of the Institute becomes leader of the Greens in England and Wales and  a national figure -continues to be involved and a team member 2012
Pascal Canfin a founder of our economics ideas becomes a Minister in the French Government 2012
The Book ‘Greening the Academy: Ecopedia and the arts’ edited by Fassbinder, Noella 11 and Kahn  is published by Sense Books with our chapter in it 2012
Solutions to Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment by Booth, Hammond, Lamond and Proverbs is published by Wiley Blackwell with our chapter in it 2012
Launch of first ever Masters and PhD programme in Green Economics in Africa is launched in South Africa 2012
Bank of England says Green Economics is one of the healthiest areas of the economy 2012
First ever Professorship in Green Economics is created at Birmingham City University 2013
Ban Ki Moon invites us to New York for his special climate conference   2013
We are a keynote speaker in Estonia 2013
We are keynote speaker at a special waste and electrics recycling event in the House of Commons, UK 2013
We produce a series of finance and economics books. The first ever green economics and finance book is launched by Tony Blackburn on the BBC radio The Greening of Global Finance 2013
The Green Economics Institute launches its The Green Transport Revolution book and Ministerial Briefing Report in the House of Commons at a special event 2013
Realist Biography and European Policy: An innovative introduction to European Studies,  Book  by Turk and Morozowski, is launched by University of Leuwen Press and we write the foreword 2013
We run a special conference on food sustainability at Trinity College, University of Oxford to launch our new book 2014
‘Plane Truth’ Book is launched by Rose Bridger about aviation 2014
Sir Crispin Tickell writes in many of our books and begins giving out our prizes each year at our main event 2014
The Green Economics Institute publishes its book on The Greening of Food, Farming and Agriculture 2014
Prince Charles invites Miriam Kennet to visit his relatives at a special conference on food sustainability and resilience in their castle in Germany 2014
Marlyn Lee Hughes becomes a Trustee of The Green Economics Institute Trust 2014
Miriam Kennet wins the Honour Award from the Luxembourg Ministry for Green Business at a ceremony and gives a keynote speech 2014
Marlyn Lee Hughes becomes Chair of Trustees of The Green Economics Institute Trust 2015
Our Director appears on the BBC politics show 2015
We run a special Youth in Action Training Course on Green Jobs with the British Council for 50 students from FYRO Macedonia, Irish Travellers, Egyptian Arab Spring Leaders, Italian Economists, English economists and are highly commended and recommended to repeat it. 2015
We launch our book on the ‘Greening of Indonesia’ at a conference at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and this is attended by the Indonesian Ambassador and the Educational Attache and we produce a special issue of our academic journal on sustainability in Indonesia 2015
We launch our book -The Greening of Art and Photography and Poetry at Worcester College and the Indonesian Ambassador joins in our Tree Hugging and poetry in motion activity ceremony. 2015
The BBC films a programme about climate change at our conference 2015
The Green Economics Institute Trust, a Registered Charity is relaunched and gains recognition from the UK tax office for Giftaid. 2015
We lecture in Cambridge to students 2015
We are keynote speaker at Anglia Ruskin College Heterodox Economics Conference 2010
We speak at the Portsmouth Oceanography Institute 2010
Miriam Kennet is keynote speaker for the North East Region NHS staff conference on care and healthcare 2014
We run a special conference on The Greening of Health and Healthcare and this leads to the publication of two important books which are used by the Chinese government to inform Health policies and care policies. We teach top Chinese government officials about healthcare and we run sessions for several years on healthcare with top healthcare professionals 2015
The Green Economics Institute checks out the area of the  United Nations Paris COP21 Climate Conference, visiting the Battaclan area less than 24 hours before the terrorist atrocity. 2015
The Green Econ0mics Institute attends the Paris COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, with a team and makes an impact starting work on its enhancing ambition programme and presuades many delegations to ask for a 1.5 degrees of warming solution. 2015
The Green Economics Institute attends the Paris COP21 Climate Conference and Ban Ki Moons top climate specialist Dr Rae, a Nobel Prize winner, himself tells us that Ban Ki Moon believes our ideas are the only ones which will save the planet’s climate 2015
The Green Economics Institute runs its first Changing the Narrative of Migration Conference at Trinity College University of Oxford 2015
The Green Economics Institute runs its second  Changing the Narrative of Migration Conference at Kellog College, University of Oxford 2016
A special Green Economics conference is run in Shillong University in India about our work and The Green Economics Institute, headed up by Professor Natalie West 2016
We run our ethics conference debate with the Green European Foundation 2016
One of our network members who hosted us at Paris COP21, becomes a minister in the Syriza government in Greece 2016
One of our mentors from the past becomes State  President of Trinidad and Tobago 2016
We write several books and book chapters on social justice- including The Philosophy of Social Justice, the Economics of Social Justice, Changing the Narrative of Migration all published by the Green Economics Institute, the Handbook of Social Justice published by Edward Elgar. 2016
Pamela Harling one of our trustees builds a zero carbon house and we create an inspirational video describing it for others to follow 2016
Michelle Gale one of our Directors becomes vice president of Umma charity in Chicago 2016
The uncle of one of our founding trustees, Bernie Sanders takes on the candidacy of President of the United States of America 2016
Gloom to Glory – Book published in India by Indira Dutta and Meera Lal about sustainable development by Allied Publishers 2016
The launch of GEIClimate.org website 2017
The launch of our 2 tonnes of carbon personal annual carbon budget campaign at COP24 Bonn United Nations Climate Conference 2017
The Green Economics Institute and GEIClimate has the largest delegation at Bonn Climate Conference with 80 members and a very large exhibition stand attracting the attention of the worlds governments and also speaking to the Head of the COP His Excellency the Prime Minister of Fiji 2017
Our director is invited onto the partner programme for question time at the bbc 2017
The Green European Foundation and the Green Economics Institute run an event in a converted coal mine to art gallery in Katowice in Poland 2018
The Green Economics Institute runs another migration conference in partnership with the Green European Foundation 2018
Miriam Kennet and Ewa Suffin address a huge protest rally for climate action outside the COP24 arena in Katowice Poland 2018
GDPR data management regulation comes in and The Institute acts as a beacon trainer for other groups as it has mastered the issues  and has documented a text for groups to follow 2018
The Green Economics Institute Trust charts how it is inspiring its teams to clock up 1000s of hours of  volunteer work making it very effective 2018
We give a keynote speech at Rethinking Economics 2018
Miriam Kennet gives a keynote speech at the Erasmus Law School Conference. 2018
Top photographer Jacqui Cross becomes our photographer having formally photographed two prime ministers 2018
We participate in a very large green congress in Liverpool and have a very popular exhibition stand  
Professor Maria Madi becomes a Trustee of The Green Economics Institute Trust 2018
Anjikwi Mshallbwana becomes a Trustee of the Green Economics Institute Trust 2018
Founder of the Green Economics Institute Trust, Judith Felton retires -becoming our first team member to retire after long service 2018
GEI Climate and The Green Economics Institute run a special side event with partners at Katowice COP 24 United Nations Climate Conference as well as an exhibition stand 2018
The United Nations General Secretary at COP24 Katowice tells the conference at the Green Economy is the single most important thing to sort out the climate and we run a 2 week exhibition stand there 2018
The Launch of GEI Books, the Green Economics Institutes books publishing house with over 100 titles in print and its new website www.geibooks.org.uk 2018
Our network grows to 20,000 people 2018
The Green Economics Institute launches its new conferences bookings website www.geiconferences.org 2018
The GEIAcademy is launched with its special website www.geiacademy.org run by Head of The Academy -Professor Maria Madi in Brazil 2018
One of our alumni students, also the designer of our Handbook series of books, Eleni Courea wins Journalist of the year and is awarded a scholarship  by the Times and Telegraph Newspaper 2018
The GEITV station is launched with 50 videos of the great and the good including videos of Al Gore, and his excellency the Prime Minister of  Vanatu and many other dignitaries, Greta Thunberg  and the co- founder of extinction rebellion, and meteorologists from all over the globe 2019
The Institute is selected to speak at the University of Wittersrand in South and is represented by Michelle Gale. It speaks at the Heterodox Economics of 1000 economists and is represented by Professor Simon Mouatt and Miriam Kennet and it speaks at the Polish Green Summer School represented by Miriam Kennet with Ewa Suffin hosting who becomes a Trustee this year.
Bernie Sanders uncle to one of our founding trustees becomes front runner in the Democrat nominations race 2019
The Institute speaks at the Polish Green Summer School represented by Miriam Kennet with Ewa Suffin hosting who becomes a Trustee this year. 2019
We publish several books on preventing corruption -a book -’Saving Social Justice in an Age of Tyranny and Corruption’  and Evaluating Corruption -something rotten around the globe’ by Dr Enrico Tezza and Dr Lavinia Tezza 2019
Professor Natalie West publishes a book about Green Economics 2019
Our 14th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference  held at the University of Oxford August 2019 2019
The Institute and GEIAcademy run several  fascinating summer schools over 3 weeks in summer 2019 attended by over 100 people  and were held  at Said Business School, University of Oxford. 2019
The Institute holds a smart cities charter event in Oxford with the Green European Foundation 2019
We run our 10th Exhibition stand at Oxford Green Fair 2019
The Institute has an official delegation to the United Nations SB50 Conference at the United Nations Climate HQ in Bonn and has an official side event where Dorothy Nulembega from Uganda speaks and an official exhibition stand which proves very popular. 2019
The Institute has a delegation to COP25 in Madrid Spain in December 2019  The institutes ideas for pressing for increased ambition takes off at this conference and ambition features strongly in the following Madrid COP25 of that year. The new theme is our house is on fire, which is unfortunately proved to be true as Australia starts to experience catastrophic fire climate emergencies in 2019. As well as a moving session with Greta Thunberg in the main plenary with Mary Robinson. It also has an official side event and an official exhibition and is awarded a delegation of 42 people officially. It partners for the first time with the Pan African Meteorology Association, Amazon for the Amazones and Bank National de Paris and The Freie University of Berlin. 2019
We participate in a live space link up at COP25 United Nations Climate Conference in Madrid 2019
Climate change moves to a new more dangerous era- with half of Australia under threat of catastrophe but its government still banning climate change as a reason!  The atmosphere increases to 412 part per million CO2 and  a condition not seen for 3 million years when the sea level was 125 metres higher, and the world was much warmer.

Health Effects start to matter to people
The ice sheets are melting very fast, diseases such as meningitus start to take hold in Africa, and malaria as expected starts to increase. Heart attacks continue in Africa, and pollution is now proven to be killing people everywhere in vast numbers, plastics are now found in every part of the planet and in most species stomachs, and almost all sea life.
Many cities are becoming dangerous and intollerable due to the pollution and in 2019 the carbon output  of humans actually increases.
We have reached 37.1 gigatonnes of carbon per year- an average output per human of 4.9 tonnes of carbon and the remaining carbon budget for keeping below 1.5 degrees of warming is now very slim at 8 years left- see our website -geiclimate.org  
Still more and more oppressive regimes are either being elected or coming to power anyway. Democracy is being fast eroded and the fossil fuel lobby is using its mucsle to to keep the world pinned to oil, gas, coal and nuclear rather than the fast swtich to renewables we need urgently.   For the first time the COP conference was unable to move forward as the new slogans -climate emergency and our house is on fire by ordinary people is supressed in favour of business as usual by a media controlled by vested interests in fossil fuels who are over represented at the COP climate talks at the United Nations.		 2019
We attend the Green European Foundation Assembly in Brussels the week before the pandemic lock downs start 2020
We run in house trainings for all our trustees with our professional charity training partners 2020
We instigate our weekly Monday evening team meetings every Monday throughout the year on line 2020
We move the monthly trustee meetings to on line every month and everyone enjoys them more so we decide to keep doing this. Trustees also attend the weekly team meetings on line as often as possible making our team much stronger 2020
We run our best ever 15th annual Green Economics Institute Conference Event with nearly 1000 people signed up to attend
Survival Solutions -June 2020 Survival Solutions Conference 24th -26th July 2020		 2020
We begin our series of Voices from the Future members events which are very popular 2020
We publish books -Oekonomie of the Future by Volker Heinemann,( UK and Germany) and Survival Solutions edited by Sukriti Anand, ( India and Spain) as well as books such as Ecosystems Services, and The Circular Economy and Waste by Professor Dzintra Astaja (Latvia), Ecosystems by Jeremy Seabrook and Financialisation by Professor Maria Madi (Brazil) 2020
We run an active student programme this year

As we continue to run excellent and up to the minute websites and web presences -we launch our Green Economics Institute Education Website and relaunch our instagram and vimeo accounts with lively content and expand the teams running them.
www.greeneconomicseducation.org website is very popular as a platform for running our education activities.

We run many events this year but moved them all on line for the pandemic including our 16th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference but move it on line due to the pandemic		 2020
We continue to run most of our events on line except our United Nations Conference Delegation which we run in person.

Our Founding director joins the Allumni Committee of Mansfield College, University of Oxford and we take start a programme of taking students to our United Nations and Climate Delegations which is very well received and continues with students becoming very active in our charity and institute

Climate Feminist Summer School 20th -22nd August 2021
Climate Feminist Summer School Summer University, Online Event August 20th – 22nd, 2021 GEF-21-02 Feminists in the Climate Movement Gender and Feminism Green Economics Institute Introduction: Diverse decision-making and womens empowerment		 2021
We work on ‘Mining for Minerals-Can it ever be really Green?’ Project with our partners -The Green European Foundation and many others – the project extends over several years and results in a publication and several interesting conferences. 2021


We run our official United Nations COP26 climate conference delegation which is very lively in Glasgow where we are very active with 2 delegations and 100 people involved running 3 sets of exhibition stands and a virtual conference exhibition stand and partner exhibition stands in the Green Hub as well as in the main conference centre and many events most of which are completely sold out with leading international speakers and academics which are very well received.
Our 17th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference is on line due to the pandemic

 2021
In 2021 we work on the climate feminist ambassadors programme 2021
We loose one of our founders -Volker Heinemann in sad circumstances and out of respect we cancel our 18th annual green economics institute conference for 2022 whilst we reorganise and reappraise and take a year to reflect only beginnng to hold events again a year later at the United Nations in Egypt November 2022. Marlyn Lee steps in to become Director whilst we work on the necessary administration of the situation. November 2021
2022  
November 2022 -We run an excellent official United Nations Exhibition Stand at the United Nations COP27 Sharm El Sheikh Egypt Climate Conference with a new enhanced team of our speakers and managers taking our teams to new levels. 2022
We speak in the parliament in Lithuania

We run exhibitions stand in many countries including in Latvia -and Egypt with lively new teams as we start to grow again rapidly.		 2022
   
We run exhibitions stand in many countries including in Latvia –  
We speak for SEED organisation of leading women -run by Lynne Franks 2022
We participate for the first time in the UN climate financial strategy meetings 2022
We send more delegations to the UN than ever before- IPBES biodiversity teams and we join with partners for the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal in September 2023
and 2 climate teams- one to Bonn in June and one large one to COP27 in November.		 2022
We expand our trustees to nearly 20 and we resume our regular weekly meetings on line and we restart our in person events and meetings after the pandemic lock downs. We run  a strategy team meeting in Oxford in person for the 1st time since the pandemic getting ready for our 20th anniversary in 2024


 2023
We run an official United Nations Side Event in Bonn, Germany at the Climate Conference for the Global Stocktake- during the UN climate conference SB58 June 2023 with 5 partner organisations.
Including Terre -India, Global Greens, University of Strathclyde and The Ukraine Law Peace Institute looking at the environmental cost of war activity.		 2023
   
United Nations Delegation to Bonn, Germany SB58 June 2023 2023
Exhibition stand in South Korea June 2023  
   
19th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference at Earth Spirit Education Centre, Somerset Uk June 2023 2023
   
We run a large and very successful
Official United Nations-  side event in The United Arab Emirates in November December 2023 COP28		 2023
Official United Nations- official research delegation in The United Arab Emirates in November December 2023 COP28  
Official Exhibition Stand -at the United Nations- Exhibition stand in The United Arab Emirates in November December 2023 COP28  
IPBES Biodiversity Conference United Nations official Delegation to Bonn, Germany UN HQ August- September 2023 2023
We sent a delegation to Khazakstan for COP29 – the UNFCCC United Nations Climate Conference. This also included an official side event with partners and also a 2 week exhibition stand with partners.

2024
Our academic journal, one of the worlds first and leading green journals-founded by Miriam Kennet, The International Journal of Green Economics has now been running for 18 years. It suddenly gets accreditation with many leading academic registries including Scopus and becomes a leading academic journal with a 3 year waiting list for papers to be published 2024
2024 – 2024
Our 20th Anniversary celebrations and our 20th Annual Green Economics Instititute Conference took place  at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Reading on the banks of the River Thames  on June  15th 16th 2024 2024
Our 20th Anniversary celebrations and our 20th Annual Green Economics Instititute Conference took place  also were celebrated with a major event at the House of Lords, Westminster, London  on October 31st  2024. This was a wonderful speaker event with 19 speakers hosted by Baroness Natalie Bennett and a transcript of the event will be available shortly.
Our 20th Anniversary celebrations and our 20th Annual Green Economics Instititute Conference took place  at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Reading on the banks of the River Thames  on June 14th 15th 16th 2024 2024

2025

We held a 1 day team building event on line in January 2025

We are planning a United Nations Delegation to Bonn, SB62 and an official side event with partners.

We are also planning a series of events to mark our 21st birthday with 3 summer schools providing education.

One in Borneo Malaysia

and two in Oxford in the autumn

We are planning a week long summer school in Oxford 1-7th September 2025

Additionally we are planning a week of celebratory conferences and research days and with partners at Trinity College, University of Oxford October 20th -26th 2025

 

 2024