OECD High-Level Policy Forum "New Frontiers for Social Policy: Investing in the Future" attended; question asked in panel on Climate change and social policy

Yesterday I attended the OECD High-Level Policy Forum "New Frontiers for Social Policy: Investing in the Future" at the OECD headquarters in Paris. The Policy Forum is followed by a Ministerial Meeting on Friday February 14th.

At the Policy Forum, I got to ask a question towards the end of the fourth panel which had the theme "Climate change and social policy", which can be seen in recording here.

My question read like this: 

“I´m Morten Tønnessen, and I am professor of philosophy from the University of Stavanger in Norway. And research by Daniel O´Neill and colleagues has shown that no country at all currently meets the basic welfare needs for its citizens while simultaneously having a material resource use that is environmentally sustainable. So no country is a good enough role model currently. How do we achieve high welfare levels without having too high material resource use in terms of environmental impact?”

My question is heard at 43m35s-44m17s. You can listen to the replies of panelist Kumi Naidoo, former leader of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International at 44m22s-46m22s and Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, former Minister of Social Affairs and the Labour Market and former Minister of the Environment in Iceland, at 46m25s-46m58s.

This is the third OECD event I have attended - earlier I have attended the 2018 High-Level Policy Forum on Social Policy in Montreal, Canada, the second such Policy Forum (I have thus attended two of three of the OECD´s Policy Forums on social policy). The same year I also attended the 6th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, held in Incheon, South Korea. 

This was the first time I visited the OECD headquarters.

MC meeting; leaving Paris

Today I attended the second half of the Management Committee meeting of the COST action GroupHouseNet, at FIAP in Paris (I am a deputy representative for Norway). I was also there for a planned Working Group meeting which for most of those present did not materialize due to concerns over our trips home given the ongoing political strike affecting pubic transportation.

Laying hen ethics article presented at final GroupHouseNet congress in Paris

Yesterday I presented our article "The ethics of laying hen genetics" at the Final Congress og the COST action "Synergy for preventing damaging behavior in group housed pigs and chickens" (Grouphousenet), at FIAP in Paris. 15 minutes of fame. Some 100 people from 20+ countries attended the congress.

Where is Utopian Realism being read?

This is the top ten list of countries where this blog is being read the most (number of page views since May 2009). The total number of page views in this period was 12.902. Note that the French number includes a measure of suspicious robotic activity the last few months.

1. USA: 3.087 (24 %)
2. France: 1.478 (11 %)
3. Norway: 1.179 (9 %)
4. Russia: 936 (7 %)
5. Germany: 767 (6 %)
6. The Netherlands: 409 (3 %)
7. UK: 382 (3 %)
8. Canada: 286 (2 %)
9. Ukrain: 246 (2 %)
10. Iran: 233 (2 %)

Greetings to all - including to those 30 % of my readers that are from yet other parts of the world!

Ethnobiology conference: Call for session proposals

I have received a call for session proposals from the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology (deadline March 31st - the conference will take place in Montpellier, France, May 20-25, 2012).

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The format of sessions is open to suggestions, and crossing conventional boundaries appear to be valued and encouraged... One of the aims of the conference series is to respect knowledge holders from different backgrounds (including indiginous representatives) by encouraging dissemination of knowledge of scholarly and other nature...

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Cf. ISE´s Code of ethics and the 1988 Declaration of Belem.