Climate Finance and the Global South: “Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South”

Key information

Date
Time
5:15 pm to 6:45 pm
Venue
SOAS, University of London
Room
RG01

About this event

This guest lecture is organised by SOAS Students' Union in collaboration with Centre of Sustainable Finance.

Speaker

  • Professor Ulrich Volz

Professor Ulrich Volz (Professor of Economics SOAS, Head of the Department of Economics and Member of the University’s Executive Board. Academic director of the University Network for Strengthening Macrofinancial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change, and a co-chair of the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery initiative. 

Economic Advisory Network of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the advisory panel of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the International Advisory Committee for the Climate/SDGs Debt Swap Mechanism of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA), and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s Research Advisory Council for Inclusive Green Finance).

Professor Uli Volz (Director of Centre for Sustainable Finance).

Header image credit: Geranimo via Unsplash.

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