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Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

Hosted by LSE Environment Week

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Dr Sudarno Sumarto

Professor Chris Woodruff

Chair

Professor Lord Stern

Climate finance is a critical tool in supporting low-income countries as they face the growing impacts of climate change.

These nations, despite contributing the least to global emissions, are often the most vulnerable to climate-related shocks such as extreme weather, rising sea levels, and food insecurity. Yet, they frequently lack access to the capital needed to adapt, build resilience, and pursue low-carbon development. Unlocking investment for climate action in low-income countries requires a coordinated effort between governments, development banks, private investors, and international organisations.

This event brings together a panel of prominent researchers, policymakers and practitioners working on this topic to explore strengthening the essential financial support and investment necessary for a just transition.

Meet our speakers and chair

Sudarno Sumarto is an economist and the first Director of the SMERU Research Institute. Now, he serves as Senior Research Fellow in the SMERU Research Institute. Moreover, his current position as a policy adviser at the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) under the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia shows his strong link to Indonesian policymakers. He holds a Ph.D. and an MA from Vanderbilt University, all in economics.

Chris Woodruff is Professor of Development Economics and a fellow at Wolfson College. He is the Scientific Coordinator for the DFID – CEPR joint research venture on Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) and directs the Firm Capabilities group at the International Growth Centre.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government and the inaugural Chair of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE. His forthcoming book A Growth Story for the 21st Century: building sustainable, resilient and equitable development will be published by LSE Press in 2025.

More about this event

Join us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (@STICERD_LSE), International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (@POID_LSE) within the Department of Economics at LSE are convening the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September. Working with partners at the School and across the world we want to use Environment Week to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change.

This is one of three public events during LSE Environment Week, the others are:

22 September - Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

23 September - Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

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This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

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