The road to 1.3trn: financing the green transition in developing countries
Join us for a seminar with Avinash Persaud, Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The road to 1.3trn: financing the green transition in developing countries
This event will explore how we can build on past failures and proven successes to finance the green transition in developing countries, to scale.
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Persaud has over 30 years of experience in finance, public policy, and academia. Prior to this appointment in January 2024, he was Special Climate Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados and an architect of the 'Bridgetown Initiative’ that played an instrumental role in helping to set the international financial reform agenda in recent years. He is a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance of the COP26, 27 and 28 Presidencies.
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