The planet had already warmed by around 1.2°C since pre-industrial times when the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This led to an unprecedented drop in human and economic activity and has evolved from a major public health crisis to also become a major socio-economic crisis. A year into the pandemic, countries are aiming to ‘build back better’ – recovering economies while achieving environmental and climate change goals to ensure growth is truly sustainable for future generations.
In a post-COVID-19 world, sustainable growth in developing countries calls for evidence-based and innovative policymaking to enable structural transformation by reducing barriers to green energy and increasing resilience to adapt to climate change. In this webinar, policymakers and economists discuss the role of global and national leadership in generating and implementing solutions for developing countries to achieve growth alongside social and environmental wellbeing.
Meet our speakers and chair
Beatrice Cyiza is the Director General, Environment and Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment in Rwanda, overseeing the development and dissemination of legal instruments, strategies and programme related to environment protection, climate change and pollution control. Through various positions and trainings, she accumulated vast experience in environment management.
Mar Reguant (@MarReguant) is Associate Professor at Northwestern University. Her research deals with the economics of energy, with an emphasis on electricity and the pollution associated with electricity generation.
Nicholas Stern (@lordstern1) is a Senior Advisor at the IGC. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics. He is also an Associate of the STICERD Economic Organisation and Public Policy programme. After 25 years in academic life, he was chief economist of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and head of the Government Economic Service and second permanent secretary at HM Treasury. He was the principal author of the report of the Commission for Africa published in 2005 and led the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in October 2006. In October 2007 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party political peer. He became the 29th President of the British Academy in July 2013, in succession to Sir Adam Roberts.
Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), and he is also an Associate Professor of Economics at LSE. He was the founding director of the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, which was established at LSE in 1990 as an initiative of the Commonwealth Heads of Government to support the democratic transition in South Africa. He has advised a number of African governments, with a focus on tax and regulatory issues, and he served as Chief Academic Advisor on Taxation to the UK Government Economic Service. He was also director of the highly innovative “LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the Causes of Things” from 2009-13. His research interests centre on public economics, with a particular focus on taxation and regulation, including congestion charging. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University
More about this event
The International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research.
The IGC directs a global network of world-leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia and works closely with partner governments to generate high-quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges. Based at LSE and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is majority funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
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