A Green and Just Planet: Presentation of the G20 Taskforce on Global Mobilization Against Climate Change's independent report
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS - University of London
- Room
- DLT – Main Building
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
In early 2024, the Brazilian G20 Presidency appointed a Group of Experts to provide independent recommendations to the G20’s Taskforce on Global Mobilization Against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA).
Among the 12 leading experts were two SOAS economics professors, Professor Daniela Gabor and Professor Ulrich Volz, and Professor Amir Lebdioui, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford (and previously a lecturer at SOAS).
The final report of the Group of Experts, A Green and Just Planet: A Framework for Governing Industrial and Financial Policy for a 1.5ºC World, was published in October 2024. It calls for G20 countries to commit to new development pathways that reconcile economic growth with urgent climate action, and for equitable global governance structures that enable all countries to benefit from green growth. The report 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 sets out a transformative framework that scales up the coordinated climate actions of fiscal authorities, central banks and green industrial policies makers.
At this event, three of the authors will present key recommendations of the report and discuss the prospects of seeing these implemented, and why these are more imperative than ever.
Speakers
- Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London
- Amir Lebdioui, Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development, University of Oxford
- Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London.
Image credit: Kalen Emsley via Unsplash.
About the Speakers
Daniela Gabor is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. She studies central banks, shadow money, just transitions and green industrial policies through a critical macrofinance lens. Daniela has served as an expert advisor for the European Parliament, the G20 under the Brazil Presidency, the United Nations 4th Financing for Development Agenda, civil society organisations and central banks. She is currently running two funded projects, REDCAJU (Rethinking Developmentalism for Climate and Social Justice) with Ndongo Samba Sylla, IDEAS Network Africa, and REDEF (Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice – a Big Green State approach). At SOAS, she is teaching International Finance, Macroecnomics and Global Economic Policy Analysis. She is working on a book on the Wall Street Consensus for Norton.
Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development. Since May 2024, he is also the Director of the University’s Technology and Management Centre for Development. His research has focused on economic diversification, green industrial policy, resource-based development and biodiversity-based innovation models. His first book "Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World" was recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Ulrich Volz is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Leipzig.
Ulrich is Research Fellow in the Climate Change and Environment programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the CEPR’s Sustainable Finance Research and Policy Network. At SOAS, he previously served as Head of the Department of Economics and Member of the University’s Executive Board. Ulrich is academic director of the University Network for Strengthening Macrofinancial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change, a co-chair of the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery initiative, co-chair of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment, and co-chair of the T20 Brazil Task Force on Reforming the International Financial Architecture.
Ulrich was appointed by the Brazilian G20 Presidency to the Group of Experts of the G20 Taskforce on a Global Mobilization against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA). He also serves on the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee of the German Federal Government, the Economic Advisory Network of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the advisory panel of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the International Advisory Committee for the Climate/SDGs Debt Swap Mechanism of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA), and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s Research Advisory Council for Inclusive Green Finance. Ulrich was Banque de France Chair at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and taught at Peking University, Kobe University, Hertie School of Governance, Freie Universität Berlin, Central University of Finance and Economics, and the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO).
He spent stints working at the European Central Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, Aoyama Gakuin University, ECB, Bank Indonesia, Bank Negara Malaysia and the Asian Development Bank Institute, where he previously served on the Advisory Council. Ulrich was part of the UN Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, a member of the NGFS-INSPIRE Study Group on Biodiversity and Financial Stability, and a member of the World Bank’s Green Recovery Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group. He has acted as an advisor to several governments, central banks, international organisations and development agencies on matters of macroeconomic policy, climate risk and sustainable finance, and financial sector development. Ulrich obtained a doctorate in economics from Freie Universität Berlin and was a Fox International Fellow and Max Kade Scholar at Yale University.
