Closing the climate finance gap: What next?
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:15 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS, University of London
- Room
- G3 - Main Building
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
Seminar with Creon Butler, Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme, Chatham House.
The discussion will focus on the continuing challenge of closing the climate finance gap facing emerging and developing economies, following the outcome of COP29 negotiations on the NCQG.
What can realistically be expected from advanced economies, particularly following the election of President Trump? If a step change in the volume of public international finance is not on the cards, what are the alternatives?
About the Speaker
Creon Butler leads the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House.
He joined the institute in 2019, since when he has written and published on a wide range of global economic policy issues, including the interaction between macroeconomic policy and climate change, sovereign debt distress, the challenge of funding global health priorities, and the long-term implications for the international economic system of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Before joining Chatham House, Creon served in the UK Cabinet Office as director for international economic affairs in the National Security Secretariat and G7/G20 ‘sous sherpa’, advising the UK Prime Minister on global economic policy issues. Creon first joined the Cabinet Office in 2013 as director in the European and Global Issues Secretariat and designed the UK’s global Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016.
He was also the British deputy high commissioner in New Delhi from 2006 to 2009 and has served in senior positions in HM Treasury and the Bank of England.
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