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5:00 pm
Venue
SOAS Senate House (SALT) & online
Room
Alumni Lecture Theatre

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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

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.

 

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Attendance is free, but registration is required. You can register to attend on campus or join via Zoom.

Contact us 

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