How to pay for the climate transition, affordable housing, and public investment?
New research shows the way
This public talk illuminates an underused opportunity to advance a just climate transition, affordable housing, and public investment. Commercial banks have unique legal vulnerabilities that past social and political movements have exploited to channel funding into social purposes in massive quantities. This talk by Sam Hummel, a visiting researcher from the United States, is sure to provoke new thinking and productive conversation. The general public are encouraged to attend. No prior experience with banking, finance, economics, or law required.
Speaker
Sam Hummel
Research Lead, Money Justice Collaborative
Sam Hummel leads research and strategy for the Money Justice Collaborative, a North American nonprofit project that collaborates with social movements, monetary reform advocates, and scholars to contest the ways banking and monetary systems intensify social and ecological crises.
He is an active contributor within the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Alliance for Just Money, the American Monetary Institute, Rethinking Economics International, and the Just Money Project.
Previously, Sam helped build two associations that support thousands of higher education institutions, governments, and corporations in implementing sustainability programs: the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.