Simone D’Alessandro will be one of the keynote speakers of the panel “From the welfare state to the social-ecological state: how to organise and finance welfare without growth?”, at the 2023 Beyond Growth conference at the European Parliament, in Brussels.
The panel aims to address the issue of how to build and finance welfare systems that are compatible with sustainable economics, that improve citizens’ wellbeing and respect planetary boundaries. It will highlight the growth-dependency of European welfare states, their blindness to the social impact of mounting environmental challenges, and the combined pressures that underinvestment, rising inequality and environmental crises put on welfare demand, along with the more recent social aftershocks of the pandemic and energy crises.
The focus panel is available for webstreaming at this link.
