Überblick
"(...) The initiative Growth in Transition held its fourth international conference, entitled „Europe’s Transformation:
Where People Matter”, on 14–15 November 2018 at the Austria Center Vienna.During the two-day event, plenary and
parallel sessions featured inspiring speakers from politics, science, civil society and the private sector. Participatory
conference formats enabled a dialogue between relevant stakeholders. With Austria holding the Presidency of the
Council of the European Union in the second half of 2018, the conference was successful in reaching out to an
international audience. The conference addressed transformation towards a sustainable society from very different
perspectives. Conference topics ranged from social and distributional aspects of a fair society to the role of the
financial sector in facilitating a sustainability transformation. In order to sustain and increase prosperity and quality
of life in the long term, we will need economic strategies that use the planet’s resources responsibly. A special focus
was put on the sustainable management of natural resource use and the mitigation of climate change. The
conference considered what measures need to be taken at national and European level to achieve decarbonisation
and a low-carbon society. (...)"
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Europe’s transformation: where People matter
4th International Growth in Transition Conference
Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Austria (Red.)
Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Austria; Environment Agency Austria
Sonstiges
Wien
2018
This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 811144