
Financing climate action: Global pledges to local realities
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Key information
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- Date
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5:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Senate House (SALT) & online
- Room
- Alumni Lecture Theatre
About this event
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Finance is front and centre of the November COP29 UN climate change meeting in Baku, with critical negotiations on determining targets for future international climate commitments and start-up of a new Fund for responding to Loss and Damage for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate-related disasters.
This multi-speaker seminar will consider the challenges facing global climate finance and whether the existing architecture for funding and delivery is fit for purpose.
Roundtable host
- Thomas Tanner, Professor of Climate and Society, SOAS
Panelists
- Leo Horn-Phathanothai, Independent scholar, SOAS Professor of Practice
- Yannis Dafermos, Reader, Department of Economics SOAS
- Emily Wilkinson, Principal Research Fellow, ODI
- Andrew Norton, Ex Director of IIED; special adviser to the Green Climate Fund, SOAS Professor of Practice
- May Thazin Aung, Climate Finance Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development
This event is part of the SOAS Global Development Seminar Series.
Registration
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Attendance is free, but registration is required. You can register to attend on campus or join via Zoom.
Contact us
- Email: devtrac@soas.ac.uk
Image by Atul Pandey via Unsplash