The STEPS Centre is convening an international panel on ‘Post-crisis STI policies for a green and fair economy: comparing approaches in North and South’ at the 10th international Globelics conference.
Chair:

Adrian Ely, Head of Impact & Engagement, STEPS Centre

Panel:

• Mariano Fressoli, Researcher, University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
• Rajeswari Raina, Scientist, National Institute for Science, Technology and Development Studies, India
• Watu Wamae, RAND-Europe

Summary:

The UN Rio+20 conference in June 2012 was framed around themes of the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development.

Against a background of impending collapse in the Eurozone, the contested nature and prioritisation of these various objectives presented severe political challenges to the associated multilateral efforts to foster more sustainable industrial systems. The Rio+20 conference itself delivered little in the way of formal commitments, with many blaming the economic crisis for an unwillingness to invest in clean technologies and the capabilities needed to harness them.

At national and regional levels, however, governments are trying – in different ways – to support the kinds of learning and innovation necessary to build green economies capable of delivering competitiveness and growth within environmental limits.

This panel aims to bring together researchers from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa to discuss the diverse contributions that science, technology and innovation (STI) policies can play in fostering such green economies, but also to investigate the equity and social justice implications of some of the policies that have so far been followed.

As well as offering opportunities for learning across jurisdictions, the panel will allow reflection around the potential for future concerted action at the international level.