The road to COP32: setting the African agenda for climate action
Speakers
Chair
As the world looks ahead to COP32 in Addis Ababa, Africa has a unique opportunity to shape the direction of global climate negotiations. At a pivotal moment for international climate policy, the continent is setting the agenda on how climate action can support sustainable and resilient economic development. This public lecture will bring together influential voices from across policy, finance and academia to explore the next chapter of Africa's climate agenda.
While international negotiations have long focused on developing frameworks and estimating the scale of climate finance required, many countries face a significant gap between commitments and the investment needed to deliver resilient, low-carbon growth. What would a more pragmatic agenda look like – one that moves beyond financing targets and towards mobilising capital and delivering practical solutions to closing the gap between ambition and implementation? The discussion will explore how African leadership can help shape a more effective approach to climate action that recognises the continent not only as highly vulnerable to climate change, but also as a source of solutions, innovation and economic opportunity.
Meet our speakers and chair
Amal-Lee Amin leads climate finance, gender and diversity investing, and technical assistance teams at British International Investment. She previously advised the UK COP26 Presidency and serves on the High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance and the OECD Advisory Group on Climate and Economic Resilience. Formerly Chief of Climate Change at the Inter-American Development Bank, she also spent a decade in UK government working on sustainable energy and climate change policy.
Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics at LSE and Director of STICERD. Her research focuses on labour economics, development economics and the economics of organisations. She is a member of IZA, CEPR, BREAD, EUDN and J-PAL Europe, and her work has been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She received the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize in 2007 and the Carlo Alberto Medal in 2011.
Auguste Tano Kouamé held a number of senior leadership positions at the World Bank, including overseeing independent evaluations of economic management, country programmes, human development and corporate performance. He previously served as Practice Manager for Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management in the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and held senior economist roles across the institution. From 2005 to 2008, he was Assistant to the World Bank President.
Vera Songwe is Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. An economist and former UN Under-Secretary-General, she served as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa from 2017 to 2022. Previously, she held senior roles at the World Bank and IFC, focusing on fiscal policy, governance, financial markets and development. She has also contributed to major international initiatives on climate finance and MDB reform.
Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chair of the Global School of Sustainability, and Head of the India Observatory. He served as Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994-1999) and the World Bank (2000-2003), was President of the British Academy (2013-2017), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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