On 8 July, GLOBE EU, together with its partners from Global Footprint Network, Club of Rome and IUCN EU Representative Office, organized the high-level event ‘Green Growth, Innovation and Finance’ to prepare for the Earth Overshoot Day - the day on which our societies have globally consumed the resources of our planet for one year.

The event taking place in the European Parliament gathered some 100 representatives from the European policy community, academia, international organizations, civil society and businesses to discuss how in an increasingly natural resource constraint world we can achieve environmentally sustainable growth. The opportunities for green growth, innovation, greening of the financial system were explored and there was a discussion on how to enhance European competitiveness while moving towards the circular economy and sustainability.

Nick Robins, co-Director of UNEP Inquiry who was a member of the panel, stressed that aligning financial policy and sustainability is needed in order to tackle systemic failures and to build policy coherence. He highlighted the opportunities for the EU to build on existing work.
The presentation made by Nick Robins can be found here