In the month after the seismic changes at the Copenhagen Climate Conference,in which we had an 11 person delegation, which includes the author of the Kyoto Protocol Carbon Trading itself, we at the Green Economics Institute wish to thank our members for your continued involvement with us as a member of The Green Economics Institute and also to welcome new members who are thinking of joining this month.

As member you are part of a distinctive group of 6000 specialists in the Green Economics Institute, and we are privileged to have you with us. We would like to thank you for your continued support in attending our events and look forward very much to welcoming you again in 2010. Your participation enhances our work.

This year, we have once again a most exciting programme for you to enjoy and for you to participate in. We are planning three events with the United Nations, including one on Green Jobs in Turin, one in Egypt and one in Geneva. We have a Green Economics Institute Conference in Venice, to start the year in April and all are welcome and we are currently taking bookings and calling for papers and speakers, although speaker slots are getting booked up quite quickly so do email if you would like to speak. Please send an abstract as we will be publishing all papers in our prestigious proceedings and also all papers will be considered for our academic double blind peer reviewed International Journal of Green Economics.

Back by popular demand we are holding a Green Economics Retreat at Glastonbury in November 2010, please email for details, it will include field trips to see wildlife and also local ancient human cultural heredity such as the earliest paths and ancient monuments, as well as all aspects of green economics well being such as art, and dance and music and local walks.

We are launching our special double issue of the International Journal of Green Economics on Climate Change Economics marking Copenhagen at the Conference, (Volume 3 Issue 3 and 4 ). We have papers in from the author of Kyoto1, Kyoto 2 and Lord Nicholas Stern. Please contact us with any work you wish to submit for publication in any of our very popular issues. We also have dedicated Volume 3 Issue 2, the special Women's Issue of the International Journal of Green Economics which was inspired by our very successful conference on Women's Empowerment,poverty and Equal Pay on March 8th of this year and backed up by our visit to the UK Treasury, No 11 Downing Street.

The Green Economics Institute did tremendously well last year, with high-level academics and specialists in many fields competing for access. The journal is now in the hands of world leaders, on desks at the United Nations, universities, and national governments, from 11 Downing Street to Macedonia, Buckingham Palace,The European Environment Agency, the UK Treasury, the Sustainable Development Commission and Dr Susan Canney tells us about how to help elephants in Timbuktu.

Puttin and The Chinese Government have copies, and Obama's advisors are publishing in it, amongst others - all throughout the European Union, the Balkans, in Asia, Latin America, throughout Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Oceania. Of course, with contributing board-members like the authors of Kyoto 1 and 2, as well as academics and specialists of unmatched quality, the journal continues to grow in popularity as the first and most progressive journal of its kind.

Forthcoming events for 2010

1.Green Economics Institute Members debrief from COP 15 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 22nd January 2010 - paid up members evening dinner.

Find out what really happened at COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -we take you behind the scenes and tell you what power structures and vested interests disrupted the Kyoto Protocol and tried to end attempts at combating climate change and the groups who are really working to try and save the small island states and to ensure climate change does no more damage from Africa, to Trinidad and in China and Australia.

2. Venice International University First ever Green Economics Institute Conference in Italy, 22nd 23rd 24th April 2010 with lots of exciting international and Italian speakers already confirmed. Please email for details. Bookings and call for speakers now open. Looking at the practical evidence and case studies. Cultural, site seeing and field trips exploring how it is affecting Venice and its ecology and economy.

Debrief from COP 15 Copenhagen Climate Conference December 2009- come and find out what the Chinese Negotiator really said at the conference.

3. 5th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference at Mansfield College, Oxford University, Progress in Green Economics, Reforming Economics, Economics up to 2050. Green Economics Solutions to: geo engineering, eco technologies, green transport, green construction, green investment, pensions crisis, changes in demography, environmental refugees,water and HEP crisis, energy crisis, economic crisis, equal opportunities, gender equity, and women's unequal pay, how green economics can help ending poverty. Launch of special

Our latest mini conference Preparing for COP15 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 70 people who participated in the Conference Dinner at Oxford University in November 2009.

academic journal issue on Green Accounting and on Green Economics in Africa, 26th - 31st July 2010

4. Ibis Hotel, Osnbabrueck, Germany October 2009: Green Economics Methodology and Defining Green Economics and Planning and preparing our delegation for Mexico COP16: Climate Change Conference.

5. Back by popular demand, 3rd Green Economics Institute, Green Economics and Well Being Conference and Retreat,Planning for our delegation and negotiators to the COP 16 climate change conference in Mexico to be held at Glastonbury Somerset England. November 5th 6th and 7th 2010.Booking now open.

New for 2010

This year we are offering our first event with our new partner

The Venice International University, Venice - 22,23, 24th April 2010 The First Ever Green Economics Institute Conference in Italy, in Venice at the International University, bookings are now open, and we are currently calling for speakers.

Last year we worked in a variety of world locations and worked with the Regional Environmental Centre in Hungary, the Italian Ministry of Tourism, Balkan Governments and officials in Montenegro and Macedonia as well as many UK Government Department including the Department of Transport and spoke at the launch of the very successful European Greens in Brussels. We even had an invitation from the Russian Federation and the Chinese Government as well as the Nigerian Government. Pictured above- Miriam Kennet Green Economics Institute Director, with the Head of Venice International University at a reception by the city in honour of the training in Sustainable Development Economics we participated in in 2009.

This year we are planning events in China, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, and Venice amongst many others. We will be speaking at the National Government School in the UK and also working with the International Labour Organisation and EURAC Research Institute as well as the UN and many other organisations and locations. Please email to find out more.

Our first ever conference in Italy this will be at Venice International University, in April 2010 on the most beautiful campus Venice International University our newest partner, in the Venice Lagoon which is proving really popular- so please email early for more details and let me know if you want to speak there. We will run field trips to explore the fast changing economy and ecology of the entire lagoon as well as cultural excursions to see world famous heritage museums and sites. The ecology and economics are fascinating and you can really see tangible effects of climate change in the lagoon as well as the clash between ecology and economy played out and affecting local people as green economics can offer solutions to some of those problems

. We are also running a Green Jobs Week in Bolzano in the Italian Alps to help with the changes already brought about by climate change which has reached 1.7 degrees warming above pre industrial levels and is already affecting the local economy and we will be helping local people, local industry, and local businesses adapt to this new situation.

Our Interns College is now expanding rapidly and becoming a major player globally. In 2010 we will have our second ever Special Interns Presentation Day- with interns last year from all over the world with 4 in Africa, and one active in China and many many more fascinating and exceptional young people. We now have 50 interns who are or have been through the Programme and we are extremely proud that this year 2 started in the Governments very fast track high flyers economics career, and we have provided two of our interns with the experience to get them into Oxford University on the most popular course of all - Environmental Change and Management! And another intern has become liasion officer between the Chinese government and the UK Government.

Our interns programme is really starting to influence the world agenda- as others are already at top schools in Paris, and we sent one to the United Nations in New York for the launch of the Small Islands initiative which will go into this round of the Kyoto Protocol to try to save them from the effects of climate change. Our head of Interns College and a former intern herself is at Cambridge University.

Back by popular demand is another Green Economics and Well Being Retreat booked for November 2010 and we will be increasing the Field Trip Options as everyone enjoyed them so much last time.

We have also now booked our first ever conference in Africa in January 22nd 2011 in Cape Town on the Water Front. We are running a training course in Abuja Nigeria in February too. Please advise if you would like to attend.

Our 5th Annual conference will take place in July 2010 and is promising to be an even bigger event than last year with bookings coming in from all over the world from exciting speakers.

Master Classes

Our slow travel campaign is really taking off and we are planning a book on this subject. We will start providing Master Classes via Web Cam for all our members on a variety of subjects. We are planning new for 2010 to run master classes via the web for all the authors of these books to launch them and for members living in in different countries to enjoy.

We will let you know more soon -so far the master classes booked are Nicholas Howarth on carbon markets and Wolfgang Hoerschele on slow cities who both have books out this year and we will be advising paid up members of the dates of these.

Books

Following the success of new books in 2010, we are expanding our book range in 2010, and shortly we will be launching 3 books in the early part of 2010. Quite a few others have been commissioned so do let us know if you like to writing and would like to write or edit for us and our publishers.

Enhancing your own career

Many members of the Green Economics Institute have used the membership of the board to enhance their careers, some have got new jobs as a result and others have marketed their work and received much higher profile and opportunities. We link to member's website, so you will get more visitors. Members receive The Green Economist twice a year and are invited to many other activities.If you are getting benefits already from association with our Institute, all we ask is that you therefore to help us by becoming a member of the Green Economics Institute so that we can continue to support your work in this way. There are plenty of reasons to join the Green Economics Institute.

As a member, you will have access to:

Special free events for members to meet other fascinating, international and multidisciplinary people who are also members of one of the fastest growing global networks.

Use of a page on our website for you to write about the issues of their choice and publicise things of interest to them. Our website receives over 10,000 visitors per month.

Preferential publishing and consultancy support, and jobs network

Free receipt of The Green Economist members' magazine twice a year

Access to an international network in over 45 nations.

Excellent reductions rates at all our exciting events - our November 28th Event sold out, and was heavily oversubscribed and among conference speakers were Nobel Prize winners and cutting-edge specialists in lower-growth and negotiators at Copenhagen and IPCC authors.

Preference for openings, launches and speeches in parliaments worldwide.

Access to our exceptional top level interns to work on your projects.

Speaking engagements - we always need speakers for the topics we work on.

Publishing with the Institute in a very wide variety of publications.

Reductions for places at our regular award-winning international training on latest topics

Invitations for speeches and workshops on topical themes.

Member representation at our advisory board meetings held regularly in Oxford and London.

Invitations to join our team of researchers/consultants, as we bid for work from EU and other agencies, including government & business

Free events at our offices, including members' drinks, guided wildlife walks and policy evenings to be held in our brand new offices

Regular membership emails updating you on current events

Currently, several of our members have been speaking on the BBC and another has just had work accepted for the Cambridge Journal of Economics and another is editing a special issue.

We are currently taking memberships to The Green Economics Institute for 2010. If you join in January 2010 you get 10% discount.Which means membership normally £40 is £35.00 for January and our first members event is a dinner absolutely free on 22nd January 2010 so do hurry to be sure to join in time.

As the Green Economics Institute continues to grow, the world's largest green network looks forward to including you in the progress being made, presenting opportunities and walking toward a new horizon in which together we will "transform economics, empowering it to provision for all people everywhere, the planet, its systems, other species, and the biosphere." We hope you will join us in this mission, becoming part of a fantastically successful international network.

If you would like to hear more from the inside of what really happened in Copenhagen three of our delegates will be there to advise on January 22nd, 2010 then please email us to let us know and send your membership form and membership fee in order to receive your free invitation to this event in London.

We look forward to seeing you at our events in 2010 and in welcoming you as a member of our exciting Green Economics Institute, influencing the world stage in the contemporary Age of Global Transformation, the Age of Green Economics ( Ban Ki Moon 2009).

Wishing you a very happy New Year

With best wishes from the team at

The Green Economics Institute

Miriam Kennet, Michele Gale, Volker Heinemann, Judith Felton

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Cop 15

Find out : Head of State from Mali explains how climate change affects Sub saharan Africa

Protestors got into the COP15 climate conference and disrupted the proceedings delaying attempts at a treaty- this was not reported in any media as there has been a news blackout on it. .

Come and find out what upset the Indian Negotiator at the Copenhagen Climate Conference

Our new initiative with the UN and ILO - Green Jobs Wildlife

One of our delegates at COP15 who also attended Inside the Bella Centre Plenary COP15

the small island states launch more radical wording

for 1.5 degrees centrigrade warming limit

the UN in USA written by one of our team

Come and find out what really upset the Indian Negotiator at the Copenhagen Climate Conference COP15

Professor Graciela Chichilnisky inventor of the carbon market and author for Kyoto Protocol and our climate negotiator at our Green Economics Institute Pre Copenhagen event launching the small island network clause she wrote for the COP15 conference and agreement which aims to keep the climate to 1.5 degrees higher than pre industrial levels