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How to Live within the Planetary Boundaries through Green Innovation

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Add to Calendar 2024-10-10 17:00:00 2024-10-11 03:12:35 How to Live within the Planetary Boundaries through Green Innovation Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Hafez Ghanem, Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, will be speaking at the Plenary Session 2 on Innovative Finance during the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) 2024 Annual: How to Live within the Planetary Boundaries through Green Innovation.

This session will explore innovative financing methods for emerging markets, green innovation, and decarbonization, including strategies for financing and linking finance to innovation.  It will also scrutinize the financial risks and opportunities engendered by biodiversity.

This event is taking place at the Westin in Tokyo, Japan.

 

For more information, see:  https://www.icef.go.jp/program/

Speakers
Hafez Ghanem
Senior Fellow
Hafez Ghanem – who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis – is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a development expert with a large number of academic publications; and more than forty-year experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision, and management of multinational institutions.  He has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and South East Asia.   Between 2015 and 2022 he was Vice President of the World Bank, initially responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, then for Sub-Saharan Africa and then East and Southern Africa.     In this latter capacity he was responsible for developing and implementing the World Bank’s strategy in the region, inc ...