A Green and Just Planet: G20 to COP30 Visions

How can Brazil’s leadership of the COP30 navigate the ongoing climate tensions in the fraying multilateral order? Join us during London Climate Action Week for an engaging discussion on how to chart new, just pathways towards a green planet.

After an opening keynote from the President of COP30, Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, we will hear from several members of the Group of Experts appointed by the Brazilian G20 Presidency to provide independent recommendations to the G20’s Taskforce on Global Mobilization Against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA), co-chaired by Professor Mazzucato and Dr Vera Songwe.

Their final report, A Green and Just Planet: A Framework for Governing Industrial and Financial Policy for a 1.5ºC World, sets out a transformative framework for advancing green industrial strategies and green financial policies to meet the urgent challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. For the first time in a G20 public document, the report questions dominant narratives calling on governments to create derisking partnerships with private finance, and instead highlights the need for coordinated climate actions of fiscal authorities, central banks and green industrial policy makers.

The South African G20 took this work forward. Professor Mazzucato was appointed as Special Adviser to South Africa’s G20 Presidency and Special Representative of the President to G20 Taskforce 1 on Inclusive Economic Growth, Industrialization, Employment, and Reduced Inequality. In her Discussion Paper to the G20, she puts forward a unified vision for the global economy rooted in the South African G20’s themes of solidarity, equality, and sustainability. It rejects the fragmentation of global agendas—climate, debt, food security, finance, industrial policy, data governance—and proposes an integrated framework grounded in long-term public value.

Agenda

• Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London

Keynote

• Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, President of COP30

Short interventions by members of the Group of Experts

• Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London; Co-chair of the Group of Experts
• Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London; Member of the Group of Experts
• Amir Lebdioui, Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development, University of Oxford; Member of the Group of Experts
• Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London; Member of the Group of Experts

Key information

• When: Monday 23rd June at 09:00 - 10:30 BST. 
• Where: SOAS, University of London, Senate House Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT)
   

Read more about the event here.