SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance to host three events as part of London Climate Action Week

24 June 2021

The Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London will host three high-level events as part of London Climate Action Week 2021 . London Climate Action Week is harnessing the power of London for global climate action. The annual event brings together the city’s world-leading array of climate professionals and communities. Now in its third year, London Climate Action Week creates space for participants to come together and find global solutions to climate change.

The first event , held on Monday 28 June, will advance solutions for the debt crisis that is looming in the Global South. Together with colleagues, Ulrich Volz , Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, will launch a new report on “Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery: Securing Private Sector Participation and Policy Space for Sustainable Development”. The event will feature keynote addresses by Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Louis Kasekende, the Executive Director of the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa; and José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This event is jointly organised with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center .

The second event on Wednesday 30 June will discuss the role that inclusive green finance can play in boosting resilience of those at the bottom of the economic pyramid and reduce their vulnerability to global environmental change, and how it can contribute to advancing a just transition. Building on a report on ‘ Inclusive Green Finance: From Concept to Practice ’ that was recently published by the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, it will consider policies that central banks and regulators can adopt to enhance inclusive green finance. Shamshad Akhtar, Chair of the Board of Directors of Karandaaz Pakistan and former governor of State Bank of Pakistan, will deliver a keynote. This event is jointly organised by the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion .

The third event on Friday 2 July will consider how central banks and regulators have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, and to what extent have they contributed to a sustainable recovery. This will be the final event in the series held by a research partnership comprising the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, E3G, The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. It forms part of the Sustainable Crisis Responses project funded by the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research & Exchange (INSPIRE) which has opened up a space to examine the options available to central banks and financial supervisors to respond to the current economic crisis in a way that is consistent with national and international commitments to environmental and sustainability goals.

All events are open to the public, but registration is required.

For details and registration links for these three events, please visit the respective events pages:

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