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September 21, 2009

CONVERGE project - Collaborating towards fair globalisation

Last week saw the launch of the CONVERGE project in Budapest where the project team is meeting today and tomorrow to formalise the start of efforts in this research. The projects full title: Rethinking globalisation in the light of Contraction and CONVERGEnce hints at the visionary research to be undertaken by this project. Awarded close to 1.4 million Euros for 4 years work, the project is the first EC funded research to extend the concept of contraction and convergence beyond emissions trading.

This collaborative project links 9 organisations from Europe old and new, from the developing world and from neighboring Iceland. The University of Bristol, The Schumacher Society and the Schumacher Centre join CONVERGE from the UK. From Sweden comes the University of Lund and the Natural Step International, from Hungary GreenDependent and Szent Istvan University, from Tamil Nadu, India comes regional development agency SCAD and from Iceland, the University of Iceland.

Together these partners hope to explore “how, given the current situation, do we manage and allocate, today, the Earth’s resources for the survival of a projected global population of 9 to 10 billion people in 2050 - and for their offspring indefinitely?”

More can be seen at http://convergeproject.blogspot.com/

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