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Webinar
High Level Panel Discussion at UNEA 5.2 - From Recovery to Transformation: Greening Economies for People and Planet
1 March 2022
Online
- Overview
When: 01 March 2022 13.15h-14.45h EAT (Nairobi) / 11.15h-12.45h CET (Geneva)
Where: Online, register here
The UNEA-5.2 official side-event by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) highlights the opportunity for countries to respond to the impacts of COVID-19 through a green economic recovery. Leaders from across sectors discuss the shifts needed in policy and investment for stimulating the economic transformation that tackles the root causes of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution.
To date, the global green spending from 50 leading economies amounts to 31.2% of total COVID-19 pandemic recovery funds disbursed - US$ 0.97 trillion out of US$ 3,11 trillion - according to the Global Recovery Observatory.
Panelists will discuss the potential impacts of investments from an international context to a country perspective, enhancing the linkages between the green transition and recovery efforts.
- How to enhance financial flows to the green recovery and address barriers countries face for achieving a sustainable transformation?
- Which policy and investment shifts are needed to ensure that a green recovery can catalyse sustained economic transformation for people and planet?
Invited Panelists
- H.E. Barbara Creecy, Minister of Foresty, Fishries and the Environment, South Africa
- H.E. Walter Verri, Vice minister for Industry, Energy and Mining, Uruguay
- H.E. Bettina Hoffmann, Parliamentarian State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment (BMUV), Germany
- Dr. Christopher Hurst, Director General, Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank
- Dr. Margaret Chitiga- Mabugu, Dean, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences , University of Pretoria
- Mr. Richard Lewney, Chair of Cambridge Econometrics
- S+50 Youth task force representative
- Mr. Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator
- Ms. Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director
- Ms. Michaela Friberg-Storey, UN Resident Coordinator, Kazakhstan
- Mr. Asad Naqvi, Head of PAGE secretariat
