What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable development?
“There’s no question that COVID-19 poses some serious risk to sustainable development going forward, if governments rush to go back to business as usual, sideline sustainability objectives and cancel allocated budgets for low-carbon projects.” –Susanne Pederson, Assistant Director-General and Head of the Investment and Policy Solutions Division, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Are existing green economy solutions being overlooked in COVID-19 response strategies?
“We built the SDG narrative, and we built our narratives on green growth, in a pre-COVID world. We now live in a post-COVID world, where we need a very different narrative. A bolder narrative, but also a much more compelling narrative than we’ve built in the past. A more focused narrative in terms of what matters." –Richard Damania, Chief Economist, Sustainable Development, World Bank
What would an ideal long-term COVID-19 stimulus package look like?
What would an ideal long-term COVID-19 stimulus package look like?
“We need a long term game plan, and that’s where I come back to the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement. That is our long-term ambition... We need this long-term compass to help orient our actions in the short-term and in the medium-term.” –Steven Stone, Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Are particular support measures required for low- and middle-income countries?
Are particular support measures required for low- and middle-income countries?
“Low-income countries might not have the ability to generate some of the fiscal packages that some of the other advanced industrial packages are doing... The supply chain interruptions have probably hit them the hardest.” –Steven Stone, Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
What is missing from the broader conversation around COVID-19 response strategies?
What is missing from the broader conversation around COVID-19 response strategies?
"The challenge and the opportunity is certainly far larger than anything the world has seen since the end of WWII in terms of the amount of money that’s available to shift and build economies...It would be dreadful if we miss this opportunity because in a generation there is no such further opportunity coming.” –Richard Damania, Chief Economist, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Recording
Speakers
Susanne Pedersen, Assistant Director-General and Head of the Investment and Policy Solutions Division, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Kumi Kitamori, Head of Division, Green Growth & Global Relations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Steven Stone, Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Richard Damania, Chief Economist, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Moderated by Gabriele Wagner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH