What's Next on Beyond GDP: A roadmap to inclusive and sustainable economies for people and planet

Event Summary

There is growing international recognition that today’s financial and economic systems are not equipped to capture the true wellbeing of our societies and ecosystems for a sustainable future for all. The Pact for the Future, adopted at the recent UN Summit of the Future, highlighted the need to redefine prosperity beyond traditional economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and redesign our economic systems around social and environmental values, and towards a regenerative economy. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) further presents an opportunity for Governments to commit to reforming the international financial architecture for people and planet. 

So how can governments transition to new measures that account for comprehensive wealth, long-term sustainability, and wellbeing? What are the political, economic, and institutional barriers to making this shift? How can we ensure intergenerational equity in the transition beyond GDP?  And how can international collaboration support countries in implementing these changes?  

The UN Beyond Lab and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) welcomes you to an interactive workshop, bringing together young people, policymakers, researchers, and thought leaders to unpack these questions and help create a roadmap for a transition towards more inclusive and sustainable economies. Building on IISD’s extensive work on comprehensive wealth and the Beyond Lab’s convenings on values-based financing and rethinking economic systems, this event aims to look at how Governments can shift beyond GDP and adopt new frameworks that reflect economic, social and environmental wellbeing.   

Speakers

• H.E. Matthew Wilson, Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Barbados
• H.E. Ambassador Nikola Gillhoff, Chargee d'affairs a.i., Deputy Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Germany
• Özge Aydoğan, Director of the Beyond Lab
• Nathalie Bernasconi, Vice-President, Global Strategies and Managing Director, Europe, International Institute for Sustainable Development, IISD
• Anu Peltola, United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Livia Bizikova, Lead II, Monitoring and Governance, Tracking Progress, IISD   
• Lara Fleischer, Head of the Well-being Data Insights and Policy Practice Team OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE)
• Brad Olsen, Chief Executive Office & Principal Economist, Infometrics New Zealand
• Emiliana Rickenmann, Climate and gender activist, co-founder of Latinas for Climate and Technical Secretariat of the Global Coalition of Peoples Facing Extractivism