The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will host the International Conference on Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth on 23 May 2017 in Berlin. The conference is being organised in collaboration with the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and in conjunction with the Petersberg Climate Dialogue. The
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a policy and action research organisation. It promotes sustainable development to improve livelihoods and protect the environments on which these livelihoods are built. IIED specialises in linking local priorities to global challenges. IIED is based in London and works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
We would like to bring to your kind attention the event taking place on Thursday 4 May 2017, at 10:00, at the International Labour Organization (Room II).
The transition to a low-carbon economy entails diverse uncertainties and risks. The long-term, pervasive and in many cases highly uncertain nature of climate change and its surrounded perceived risks, make this transition uniquely challenging to rational and well-informed policy and investment decisions. If the low-carbon transition is to be successful, actors in the economy must be well prepared to face and overcome such challenges, reduce their potential impact, and to exploit the opportunities for wealth and welfare creation that may arise.
Green Talks LIVE - Green finance and investment: Using policy levers to accelerate green capital flows
Two years after the establishment of two historic global agreements – the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change – leaders and other change agents from government, business, research and NGOs will come to Switzerland, host of the United Nations, to talk about how to accelerate the revolution.
How should we manage, coordinate, finance, track progress, learn, train and communicate about it?
PUBLIC LECTURE
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Graham Dutfield, Professor of International Governance, University of Leeds
