A Green and Just Planet — G20 to COP30 Visions
Senate House Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT) SOAS, University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
About this Event
How can Brazil’s leadership of the COP30 navigate the ongoing climate tensions in the fraying multilateral order? Join us during London Climate Action Week for an engaging discussion on how to chart new, just pathways towards a green planet.
After an opening keynote from the President of COP30, Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, we will hear from several members of the Group of Experts appointed by the Brazilian G20 Presidency to provide independent recommendations to the G20’s Taskforce on Global Mobilization Against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA).
Their final report, A Green and Just Planet: A Framework for Governing Industrial and Financial Policy for a 1.5ºC World, sets out a transformative framework for advancing green industrial strategies and green financial policies to meet the urgent challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. For the first time in a G20 public document, the report questions dominant narratives calling on governments to create derisking partnerships with private finance, and instead highlights the need for coordinated climate actions of fiscal authorities, central banks and green industrial policy makers.
Agenda
Welcome
• Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London
Keynote
• Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, President of COP30
Short interventions by members of the Group of Experts
• Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London; Co-chair of the Group of Experts
• Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London; Member of the Group of Experts
• Amir Lebdioui, Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development, University of Oxford; Member of the Group of Experts
• Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London; Member of the Group of Experts
Open discussion with audience
SOAS Centre for Sustainable, Oxford Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre, and UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance aims to advance the transition to an equitable, low-carbon economy by providing a forum for interdisciplinary research and teaching on sustainable finance and investment.
The Oxford Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre engages in interdisciplinary research into innovation, technology and management throughout the developing world. This research informs public policymakers, private firms and individuals on some of the most important skills and capabilities in these areas which will help to lift nations out of poverty.
The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is changing how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
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