Habsburg stage - Day 1, 17.00 - 17.45
As leaders prepare massive stimulus packages to stabilize their battered economies, consensus over a green, resilient, and inclusive recovery is becoming mainstream rhetoric. Indeed, several projects can deliver the dual objective of economic recovery with jobs and green growth, but several struggling fossil-intensive industries employ millions and cannot change overnight. Investment across the energy sector will fall, and the International Energy Agency expects global growth in new renewable energy capacity to slow for the first time in two decades. Somehow, the immediate economic rescue will need to be balanced with the Paris Agreement’s longer-term objectives and sustainable development goals, including the bedrocks of a clean economy and societal transitions. What is the UN doing to maintain a sense of climate urgency during this critical recovery period in the latter half of 2020? How will COVID-19 affect long-term climate policies that remain under development or have been wholly upended? What are the expectations for COP 26 in 2021? How will the guidelines and principles of green recovery be shared to identify sustainable investments?
Speakers:
H.E. Mark A.G. Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation for St. Kitts and Nevis
Martin Hojsík, Member of European Parliament, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Led by:
Tom Nuttall, Berlin Bureau Chief, The Economist, Berlin
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