Advancing sustainable economies is one of the Liberal International Climate Justice Committee’s strategic priorities.
In an effort to craft a comprehensive position on economics and climate justice, the committee is organizing a series of discussions with experts in the field. Through these dialogues, the committee seeks to deepen its understanding of climate finance and innovative ideas, enabling them to draft impactful position papers and policy recommendations. These recommendations will be crucial for the next round of NDC negotiations, aiming to guide global efforts toward a more sustainable and just future.
Tuesday, May 7, 4pm UK time
Moderator: Dave Bryant, Shadow Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa
This session will discuss how we source funds for climate change adaptation and loss and damage, including international transfers to climate-vulnerable countries, and the operationalisation of the loss and damage fund activated at COP28.
Topics for investigation include an evaluation of the loss and damage fund established at COP28, addressing the financing gap in the loss and damage fund, the sustainability of relying on official development assistance, the role and responsibility of private finance in climate funding, the merits and problems with conditional financing, and more.
Speakers:
Baysan Naran – Manager, Climate Policy Initiative
Alex Scott – Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Lead, E3G
Tuesday, May 14, 3pm UK time
Moderator: Imad Ahmed, Energy and Climate Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Climate change defies the current economy and the ideas that underpin it. With an urgent need for new investment and a redirection of resources, jobs, and policy, it requires a revision of what is valued, creates demand for new ideas, and throws into question the pursuit of growth under planetary boundaries.
In this session, we will have deep dives into Treasury and central banking policies. Experts will explain and discuss
The practice of Treasury departments discounting future benefits and costs, and whether current practices make sense when it comes to deciding the fate of projects that will impact future temperature scenarios. We’ll hear the authors’ perspectives on how we’d expect decision-making about publicly funded projects to change, as well as decision-making by markets.
The idea of carbon currencies – how they could work to abate emissions, who they’d benefit in the short and longer term, what industry changes we’d expect to see, how they’d work, the barriers to their effective execution and how feasible they could be.
Speakers:
Delton Chen, PhD. – Founder, Global Carbon Initiative; Civil engineer; Geo-hydrologist
Tom Athanasiou – Co-Director, Climate Equity Reference Project; Author