8. júna 2026 (pondelok) od 10:00 do 11:30 hod.

Tentokrát pozvanie prijal

Martin Sokol 
(Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),

ktorý prednesie prezentáciu s názvom:

“Rethinking Central Banks and Monetary Policies in the Age of Climate Chaos”

Abstract: This paper considers the role of central banks and their monetary policies in the age of deepening climate chaos. The paper argues that contemporary societies are characterised by a high degree of financialisation, where finance assumes a dominant role over the economy. With the cracks in the system becoming increasingly apparent, central banks have emerged as key institutions that keep it going, attempting to stabilise an inherently unstable system. Further destabilisation will come from accelerating climate disruptions, putting central banks into a role of climate managers. It is thus becoming clear that we need to rethink our economic and financial systems and central banks that underpin them. Central banks and their monetary policies can continue to support the current carbon-intensive, growth-driven, debt-based, inequality-ridden financialised system that is clearly unsustainable, or they can promote a transformation towards more just and more stable economic and financial futures (that may include a post-growth, degrowth or steady-state economy). One way or another, it appears that we cannot have a sustainable future if we don’t transform the economic system, we cannot transform the economic system if we don’t change the financial system; and we cannot change the financial system if we don’t rethink the role of central banks in it.

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