Launch of the CEPR eBook on 'Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South'

Emerging Market and Developing Economies have enormous investment needs in climate mitigation and adaptation. Most countries in the Global South also face significant impacts from climate change that need to be accounted for by the financial sector. Monetary and financial authorities as well as banks and other financial institutions in developing and emerging economies are increasingly seeking to address sustainability risks and scale up sustainable lending and investment.

The eBook explores how the public sector (public banks and central banks) and the private sector (institutional investors and banks) can develop new policies, approaches and instruments and team up to scale up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South.

For the virtual launch event of the eBook, editors Dirk Schoenmaker (CEPR Fellow and Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Ulrich Volz (CEPR Sustainable Finance RPN member and SOAS, University of London) moderated two panels, exploring 'How to scale up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South?' and 'Developments on the ground'. 

'How to scale up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South?'

Moderated by Dirk Schoenmaker, Professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and CEPR Fellow

Panellists: 
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Member of the Governing Board of Banco Central de Chile
Samantha Attridge, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Karim El Aynaoui, President of the Policy Center for the New South and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

'Developments on the ground'

Moderated by Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London and CEPR Sustainable Finance RPN member

Panellists: 
Suranjali Tandon, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Swisa Ariyapruchya, Head of Sustainability Research, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Thailand

This launch was held online, Thursday, 3 November via Zoom. 

Webinar Start-End Time:
- 12:00-13:30 GMT (London)  - 09:00-10:30 CLST (Santiago)  

- 13:00-14:30 CET (Paris)  - 08:00-09:30 EDT (New York)  

- 20:00-21:30 SGT (Singapore)  - 17:30-19.00 IST (Mumbai)