The Green Development Agenda

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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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Agenda

Moderator: Jo Coburn
3:30 PMWelcome
  1. Binaifer Noworjee, 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. To Be Announced
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. Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico
  2. Isabel Estevez, Co-Executive Director of i3T
  3. Yin Shao Loong, Deputy Director of Research at the Khazanah Research Institute
4:50 PMBreak
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?
5:20 PMRemarks
  1. Brian Kettenring, Co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy
5:25 PMFireside Chat
  1. Sara Jane Ahmed, Managing Director and Finance Advisor of the CVF-V20
  2. 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)

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