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p.1 EESC opinion on economic system change 30/06/2017 Nick Meynen EEB Click icon to add picture Click icon to add picture Click icon to add picture Click icon to ad p.2 EEB European Environmental Bureau 140+ civil society

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EESC opinion

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system change 30/06/2017 Nick Meynen EEB

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140+ civil society organisations (federations, networks) 30+ European countries. Founding member of GREEN 10

EEB – European Environmental Bureau

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Global Policies and Sustainability

Global supply chains to the EU Global environmental justice movement Agenda 2030 – SDG Watch Europe The Big Picture

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The Atlas of Environmental Justice

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Climate change or System change?

well-being for all within planetary boundaries VERSUS More extraction, trade, consumption & GDP aided by deregulation, austerity & privatisations Science, Piketty, Wilkinson … … even IMF wrote: “Neoliberalism, Oversold?”

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Sustainability? For who?

The draft opinion says: “sustainability at the heart”. BUT

CEO of KBC Bank: sustainability = BAU for eternity
Rio+20: sustainability = “sustained growth” (x16)
There are no pillars of sustainability, only circles

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Time to get real – 1

The role of business in SDGs in particular is usually portrayed as an “opportunity” but there's no business case for respecting human rights. There is also no science case for drilling in the Arctic or Amazon (Nature magazine). It's not about discouraging or taxing but about banning.

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Time to get real – 2

The circular economy is needed but has limited scope. Majority cannot be circular 7% is circular, 40% is

entropic. Can never go to 100%.

The metabolism of the global economy is too high. Earth scientists says: leave 4/5 in the ground. Now we extract every drop of fossil fuel possible and then pray to God that nobody uses it.

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We need stronger market interventions to keep the bad companies in check

Legally binding rules for corporate accountability
UN Treaty on Business & Human Rights
Ecocide = 6th crime against humanity
Access to justice on env. matters in EU (Aarhus)

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We need science based policymaking

6th mass extinction & CC ask absolute reductions GDP ≠ progress. Progress = GPI, HDI, GNH What is “growth that benefits all”? Growth of what? SDGs: unclear about “sustainable growth” vs “SCP” Quota saved fish, not CSR or labels or consumers

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We need to get rid of myths

“Consumer is king” kills producers and ecosystems
“Educating the consumer” is end-of-pipe solution
Since 2008 the west adds more debt than GDP
Belgium gives a 4 billion subsidy / year to fossil fuel
TTIP & CETA are not seperate, they undo all the rest
65% more emissions, 3 years in row new records

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The Anthropocene – Steffen

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EESC can call EC to go for

Jobs and Planet agenda
10 Revised Juncker Priorities
Accountability instead of responsability
First define sufficiency, then efficiency. Quota
Catch up with China on access to justice for NGOs
Get rid of GDP growth as a goal.
Goal: well-being for all within planetary limits