Wexner Summit on Climate Change

Zoom Recording: Doughnut Economics

Slides Attached Here

Zoom Recording: Copenhagen Announcement

Agenda, March 14, 2023. 1:00pm-2:15pm ET, 7:00pm-8:15pm IT

1. Doughnut Economics with guest speakers Zohar Ianovici*  and Merav Cohen**

PREWORK REQUIRED: TEDTalk: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

Optional Additional Resources:

• Foundations of Doughnut Economics – online lectures
• Kate Raworth website:com
• Israel Doughnut Community website (Hebrew)
• TIME article – Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment
• Creating city portraits with the Doughnut Economics model – case studies
• Doughnut Economics in Business video

2. Break Out Group Conversations

YOU HAVE BEEN PRE-ASSIGNED 2 DIFFERENT CHAVRUTOT. THIS CALL IS MANDATORY BUT IF YOU NEED TO MISS, PLEASE LET US KNOW BY MARCH 5, AS THE MATCHES HAVE BEEN MADE VERY CAREFULLY.

3. Update: Our In-Person Meeting in Copenhagen, October, 2023

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*Zohar Ianovici is a development economist working at The World Bank and focusing on East European countries. After receiving his MA from the London School of Economics, Zohar worked in Vietnam assessing donor-funded large scale development projects in the East Asia region and researching the integration of the region to Global Value Chains. After several years working at the World Bank office in Romania, Zohar relocated to Amsterdam, where he learned about the Doughnut Economics model. Recognizing the potential of the model to advance prosperity and address environmental degradation largely caused by the current economic and political system, Zohar co-founded the ‘Israel Doughnut Economics community’.

**Merav Cohen is a PhD candidate researching social-ecology at the Technion – Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, and co-founder of the ‘Israel Doughnut Economics Community’. Previously an attorney (focusing on energy and infrastructure), Merav worked in Beijing promoting an EU-China project on environmental governance, and more recently in New York, managing a national-scale sustainability program at Hazon. Merav holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy (MPA) from Columbia University in New York, and a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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• December 4 – 6, 2022In-Person Gathering
  The Archer Hotel
  Austin, TX

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November 22, 2022, 8 PM – 8:30PM IT Israeli Only Orientation Call for our In-Person Meetings
Zoom link:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86476546147

The recording of this call can be found here.

The recording from the conversation can be found here.

Bartow Elmore Climate PowerPoint Slides

The recording from the conversation can be found here.

The chat from the conversation can be found here.

The recording from the orientation can be found here.

The NEEDS and DEEDS chat can be found here.

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