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How could Fairer Finance help us address Climate Change?
02 November 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
In this lunch hour lecture Nadia Ameli, Ashish Ghadiali and Joshua Ryan-Collins explore how fairer finance can help us address climate change.
This event is free.
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About the lecture:
The sustainable finance policy agenda has largely neglected the financial disadvantages faced by many low and middle income nations in addressing the ecological transition. Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins will consider what sort of reforms to the international financial system are needed to address this, including more restrictive financial regulation aimed at reducing ecologically-damaging financial flows, nature-based sovereign bonds, nature-linked central bank swap lines ecologically-linked special drawing rights (SDRs). Thinking about fairness in climate finance, Ashish Ghadiali will talk about the need to develop a holistic approach to what just climate action looks like, not decarbonisation alone. The developing world has been described as a potential "renewables powerhouse", but Nadia Ameli will discuss how lack of fair access to investment could create inescapable traps for the poorest countries.
This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’. Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas.
Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one
About the Speakers
Nadia Ameli
Principal Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR)
Nadia Ameli is an experienced researcher on economic, finance and policy aspects of climate change and related energy issues. Since she started my PhD, her works investigated questions related to financial barriers of low-carbon investments. Currently, she is a Principal Research Fellow with a proleptic Academic Appointment at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR). She has recently been awarded an ERC starting grant (LINKS) focusing on the role of climate finance to meet the Paris goals (2019-2024).
Ashish Ghadiali
Activist-in-Residence at Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Ashish Ghadiali is a filmmaker and activist who organises with the climate justice collective Wretched of the Earth. He is a member of the co-ordinating committee of the COP26 civil society coalition and a commissioning editor at Lawrence and Wishart Books where he's developing a new Soundings imprint, to be launched with a slate of books on Race and Ecology in 2022. He was formerly Race Editor, then Co-Editor of Red Pepper magazine (2017-2020) and part of the team that set up the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp (in 2006).
Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins
Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins is Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. His research interests include money and banking, sustainable finance and the economics of land and housing. His books include Where Does Money Come From? (2011, New Economics Foundation); Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (2017, Zed books) and Why Can’t you Afford a Home (2018, Polity). He has published in journals including Socioeconomic Review, Ecological Economics, Nature Climate Change, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and The British Journal of Sociology. He was previously Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), one of the UK’s leading progressive think tanks and is a council member of the UK’s Progressive Economy Forum.