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Revisiting Economics and Finance to Accelerate Action for People and Planet

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2 June 2022, 13:30 - 14:45 CEST

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This PAGE official side-event focused on co-creating solutions for urgently needed economic and finance transformation at a scale for addressing sustainability and inequality challenges.

Official Side Event

Linear and fossil-based economic and finance models of the past are no-longer an option in a world of increasing planetary crisis, climate risks, growing socioeconomic uncertainties, inequalities and poverty. The PAGE high-level event at Stockholm+50 revisited economics and finance to identify solutions for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs by tackling the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution, in tandem with the socioeconomic crisis of inequalities, job loss and stagnated growth.

The side-event also saw the PAGE community welcome Cambodia and Rwanda as the newest members of the partnership. PAGE currently supports 22 countries in their efforts towards Inclusive Green Economic Transformation.

Agenda

  1. Welcome from PAGE

    Steven Stone, Deputy Director, Economy Division, UNEP

  2. Opening Remarks

    Gerd Müller, Director-General, UNIDO

  3. Framing the Discussions

    H.E. Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission

  4. Panel Discussion

    Panel discussion on “Revisiting Economics and Finance to Accelerate Action for People & Planet” moderated by Mr Alan AtKisson, Director of the Department of Partnership and Innovation, Sida, Sweden:

    • Hon. Cecilia Nicolini, State Secretary of Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Innovation, Ministry of Environment
      and Sustainable Development, Argentina
    • Hon. Beob-jeong Kim, Deputy Minister, Climate Change and Carbon Neutral Policy Office, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea
    • Ms Carin Jämtin, Director General of the Swedish International
      Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden
    • Ms Gita Sabharwal, UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand

    Engagement with the in-person audience, including Hon. Ministers
    of Mozambique and Jordan and civil society representatives

     

  5. Welcoming New PAGE Partners
    • Hon. Dr Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment of
      Rwanda
    • Mr. Pak Sokharavuth, Acting Director General of Environmental Protection, Cambodia
  6. Closing Reflections

    Nikhil Seth, Executive Director UNITAR

Invited Speakers

  • Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission
  • Hon. Beob-jeong Kim, Deputy Minister, Climate Change and Carbon Neutral Policy Office, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea
  • Hon. Cecilia Nicolini, State Secretary of Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Innovation, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Argentina
  • Gerd Müller, UNIDO Director-General
  • Nikhil Seth, UNITAR Executive Director
  • Gita Sabharwal, UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand
  • Carin Jämtin, Director General of Sida, Sweden
  • Alan AtKisson, Assistant Director-General, Partnership & Innovation, Sida, Sweden

Organisers

UNEP, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO & UNITAR under the auspices of the United Nations Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), together with funding partners, partner countries, and partner initiatives including the Environment for Development Initiative, Stockholm Resilience Center (Stockholm University), Poverty and Environment Action, UNEP Finance Initiative, among others.

 

UN PAGE Partnership for Action on Green Economy

  • UN Environment - United Nations Environment Programme
  • ILO
  • UNIDO
  • UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research
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