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Towards a Low Carbon, High Wellbeing Future Creating Resilient Rural Communities – Constrained Choices with Infinite Possibilities Ceiliuradh 28thth October 2009 Chris Pienaar nef (the new economics foundation) Living better, using less What do we want? Economic growth – mixed blessings Measuring what matters Towards a low carbon, high well-being future What future do we want? Economics as if people and the planet mattered: •Well-being •Social Justice •Inter-generational justice* *Brundtland formulation (UN): “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” Understanding well-being Individual’s subjective experience of their life A ‘dynamic process, emerging … through the interaction between their circumstances, activities, and psychological resources. Aside from feeling ‘good’, it also incorporates a sense of individual vitality, opportunities to undertake meaningful, engaging activities which confer feelings of competence and autonomy [and] is also about feelings of relatedness to other people’ Understanding well-being Foresight Mental Capital and Well-Being Project e.g. to be autonomous, competent, and connected to others Experience of life Functioning well and satisfaction of needs Enabling conditions e.g. material conditions, opportunities, social norms e.g. happiness, satisfaction, interest, boredom and distress Psychological resources e.g. resilience, optimism, selfesteem, personality Living better, using less What do we want? Economic growth – mixed blessings Measuring what matters Towards a low carbon, high well-being future Impacts of growth on… Environment Inequality Well-being Earth in 1959 Earth in 2009 Growth and environment Economy Economy Environment Society Environment Neoclassical model of economy Ecological economics model “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman… or an economist” Kenneth Boulding Gone too far 16000 > 1 planet living 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 < 1 planet living Global biocapacity Global footprint 2000 19 61 19 63 19 65 19 67 19 69 19 71 19 73 19 75 19 77 19 79 19 81 19 83 19 85 19 87 19 89 19 91 19 93 19 95 19 97 19 99 20 01 Global hectares (millions) 14000 Impacts of growth on… Environment Inequality Well-being Growing incomes? 300 250 200 150 GDP 100 median income weekly income bottom 5% 50 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Growth isn’t working Worldwide, during the 1990s, for every $100 added to the value of the global economy, only 60 cents found its way to those living below the absolute poverty line of $1 a day. Growth isn’t Working, 2006 Impacts of growth on… Environment Inequality Well-being Scarce gains… Real GDP per capita and subjective Life Satisfaction in the UK 200% 180% GDP 160% Life Satisfaction 140% 120% 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 Scarce gains… Among richer countries, little correlation between GDP and well-being. Threshold Hypothesis Recent studies by the Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank show that economic growth correlates negatively with wellbeing Living better, using less What do we want? Economic growth – mixed blessings Measuring what matters Towards a low carbon, high well-being future National Accounts of Well-Being Based on data from European Social Survey, 2006 c. 40,000 respondents in 22 countries Over 50 questions on well-being National Accounts of well-being: a structure Personal well-being Social well-being Living better, using less What do we want? Economic growth – mixed blessings Measuring what matters Towards a low carbon, high well-being future the fair and equitable distribution of social, environmental and economic resources between people, countries and generations Good lives do not have to cost the earth some challenges Reduce over-consumption Understand the regions fair share of resources and interdependence between localities Understand what supports a good life Actively decide – explicit, consistent policies / behaviour Civic society, third, public and private sectors working towards a common & just purpose Framework of outcomes across local, sub-regional, regional and national – social, economic, environmental outcomes Sustainable Outcomes Framework Commissioner & service user priorities Not pre-determined to support innovation 1. Activity Sustainable Community strategy, Local Area Agreement 2. Output 3. 4. 5. Service level outcomes -social -economic -environmental Local Authority Community outcomes -social -economic -environmental Regional level outcomes - Low carbon - Well-being - Social justice - Low carbon - Well-being - Social justice National Outcome frameworks -social -economic -environmental - Low carbon - Well-being - Social justice Living better, using less, sharing more Action to support resilience characteristics – supporting action in communities, and at appropriate scale Ability of a system to absorb shocks Self-organise : strong social organisations, activism, mutual models, democratic voice Innovate: understanding of common purpose (economic & environmental literacy), open opportunity to delivery in different ways Learn: feedback loops, supported to experiment, coproduce A resilient community? Resilience can broadly be defined as the ability of a system (social, economic or ecological) to cope with external shocks as they arise. In measuring a system’s resilience, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research refers to indicators that demonstrate the system’s ‘ability to (a) absorb shocks and retain its basic function, (b) self organize (social institutions and networks), and (c) innovate and learn in face of disturbances A different approach Invitation to the Local Economy Workshop – How Communities Can Help Each Other to Build Economic Sustainability Plugging the Leaks Programme; Enterprising Communities Framework Making Spaces Delivery Model Economic and Environmental Literacy Tools Coaching Approach Networks Good lives don’t have to cost the earth You: monthly actions you can take www.onehundredmonths.org/ . http://www.350.org/ Your community: Become involved in the transition town movement, www.transitiontowns.org/ Use the Sustainable Communities Act www.lga.gov.uk Use the tools and approaches at www.pluggingtheleaks.org Your business: Balanced scorecard – looking at your triple bottom line outcomes, deciding what you want to do about them. www.pluggingtheleaks.org Your Organisation: actively seeking to create positive local economic, social and environmental outcomes from your mainstream spending and core business. Good Corporate Citizenship http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/ Sustainable procurement www.procurementcupboard.org