IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: October 7, 2015
DAY: Wednesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: National Theatre
Overview
The international community has set an aspirational and highly challenging target of essentially stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at current levels. Advanced and developing countries will announce future emissions mitigation pledges to be ratified at the Conference of the Parties (COP-21) in Paris, December 2015. An immediate and practical issue is what policy instruments are best suited for implementing these pledges, and how they might be designed.
Climate finance will also be on the table at the Paris conference. Advanced countries have pledged to mobilize—from public and private sources—$100 billion a year from 2020 onwards for climate mitigation and adaption projects in developing countries. Significant funds for climate finance are already being channeled through lending by multilateral development banks and public donations are being made through the Green Climate Fund, but substantial scaling up will be required if the $100 billion target is to be met.
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Panelists
Moderator: Martin Wolf
Panelist: Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres has served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since 2010.
Ms. Figueres has been involved in climate change negotiations since 1995, initially serving as a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team. She held positions on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism and the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties in 2008-2009. In 1995, she founded the Centre for Sustainable Development of the Americas, a non-profit think tank for climate change policy, which she directed until 2003.
Panelist: Jim Yong Kim
Panelist: Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde has been Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since July 2011. She held various ministerial positions within the French government, including Finance and Economy Minister (2007–11), Minister for Foreign Trade, and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. She was also Chairman of the Global Executive Committee and Global Strategic Committee of Baker & McKenzie.