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Join the Open Society Foundations and the Global Fund for a New Economy in partnership with Project Syndicate for The Green Development Agenda – a live broadcast event, focused on bringing together leading academics, policymakers, and activists to explore how new thinking can drive green development worldwide, especially across the Global South.

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Speakers

Agenda

Moderator: Jo Coburn
3:30 PMWelcome
  1. Binaifer Nowrojee, President of the Open Society Foundations
Session One: Multilateralism for the Many
Just when developing countries have begun to exert greater influence through international organizations like the G20, and through policy innovations like the Bridgetown Initiative, multilateralism itself is breaking down. With nationalism and zero-sum rivalries limiting the scope for collective action, what will it take to muster meaningful global responses to shared problems such as climate change, the water crisis, biodiversity loss, and debt distress?
3:35 PMFireside Chat
  1. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy on Financing Sustainable Development
  2. Richard Muyungi, Chair of the African Group of Negotiators and Special Envoy Adviser to the President of the United Republic of Tanzania for the Environment and Climate Change
Session Two: Pathways for Low-Carbon Development
Following the era of the Washington Consensus, when all low- and middle-income countries were prescribed the same economic-policy regimen, it has become increasingly clear that new thinking is in order. What principles should define the new development economics, and what do recent real-world success stories have to teach other low- and middle-income countries around the world?
4:00 PMPanel Discussion and Q&A with International Media
  1. Jiwoh Abdulai, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Sierra Leone
  2. Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP)
  4. Yin Shao Loong, Deputy Director of Research at the Khazanah Research Institute
4:50 PMBreak
5:20 PMKeynote Address
  1. Marina Silva, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil
Session Three: Levers of Change
Over the past few years, those on the front lines of the climate crisis have sought to drive change through novel channels, recognizing that the status quo is not delivering progress fast enough. But with so much to do and so little time, where should activists, reformers, and others hoping to exert an outsize influence focus their attention?
5:25 PMRemarks
  1. Brian Kettenring, Co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy
5:30 PMFireside Chat
  1. Sara Jane Ahmed, Managing Director and Finance Advisor of the CVF-V20
  2. Pepukaye Bardouille, Director of the Bridgetown Initiative
  3. Isabel Estevez, Co-Executive Director of i3T

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    Join the Open Society Foundations and the Global Fund for a New Economy in partnership with Project Syndicate for The Green Development Agenda – a live broadcast event, focused on bringing together leading academics, policymakers, and activists to explore how new thinking can drive green development worldwide, especially across the Global South.