Background Books
Financing a Just Transition:
Transforming Funding, Tackling Climate Change
Edited by John Kirton and Ella Kokotsis
with Ely Sandler as editorial consultant
Published by GT Media, 2024
Free downloadable electronic version available here
See also the Global Governance Project
Introduction: Achieving Adequate, Ambitious Climate Finance
- Countering the greatest crisis of our time
- John Kirton, director, Global Governance Program
- Bridging the gap between ambition and action
- Ella Kokotsis, director of climate finance strategy, Global Governance Program
- A moment of profound fracture
- Simon Stiell, executive secretary, UN Climate Change
- A crucial transformation
- Narendra Modi, prime minister, India
- Taking a global role in the climate crisis
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president, Brazil
- Building a sustainable future
- Cyril Ramaphosa, president, South Africa
- Mobilising UNDP support for climate finance
- Interview with Achim Steier, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
The Paris Agreement Platform
- Bridging the gap: using carbon pricing to finance the energy transition
- Ely Sandler, Harvard Kennedy School
- The need to scale climate finance provision for a just transition: Morocco’s perspective
- Bouzekri Razi, director, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Green Economy, Morocco’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, and Iskander Erzini Vernoit, director, IMAL Initiative for Climate and Development
- Rwanda’s path to a just and sustainable future: mobilising finance for climate action
- Juliet Kabera, director general, Rwanda Environment Management Authority
- Balancing development and climate ambitions
- Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 sherpa
Improving Public Finance
- Working together to fight climate change
- Kristalina Georgieva, managing director, International Monetary Fund
- The role of the International Monetary Fund in supporting climate action
- Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, director, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund
- Lessons from a journey across the globe
- Ajay Banga, World Bank Group president
- Trillions needed from the G7 and G20 for the climate emergency
- Brittaney Warren, director of compliance and sustainability governance, Global Governance Program
- How multilateral development banks can bridge the climate financing gap
- Frannie Léautier, former chair, G20 Expert Panel on the Capital Adequacy of the Multilateral Development
Banks
Mobilising Private Sector Finance
- Financial innovation for climate investment and development
- Mark Carney, United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance
- Transforming the financial system: an inclusive, people- centred approach
- Nick Robins, professor in practice – sustainable finance, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Are corporations allocating capital towards climate action?
- Shafaq Ashraf and Sangeeth Selvaraju, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Improving Integrity for Private Sector Finance
- How IOSCO is supporting trust in capital markets to drive sustainability
- Jean-Paul Servais, board chair, International Organization of Securities Commissions
- Best steps now for urgent climate action
- Interview with Michael Bloomberg, UN secretary-general’s special envoy
for climate ambition and solutions
- Partnerships to get on the right pathway
- Mia Mottley, prime minister, Barbados
- Corruption: a roadblock to climate finance
- Lida Preyma, founder and CEO, Celandaire Capital
Frontier Technology – Financing Fit-for-Future Infrastructure
- Growing the pipeline of energy transition investments
- Astrid Manroth, head, Global Infrastructure Facility
- What will it take to unlock climate finance for just energy transitions?
- Angela Wilkinson, secretary general and CEO, World Energy Congress
- How regenerative agriculture can make climate solutions more resilient
- Tania Strauss, head of food and water, World Economic Forum
Innovative Climate Financing
- Addressing the climate finance gap: a path forward for global emissions alignment and ambitious action
- Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy
- An SDR bond for climate finance
- Brad W Setser, Whitney Shepardson senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- A public health perspective on climate change and small island developing states: the Caribbean
region [full-length version]
- Laura-Lee Boodram, Shane Kirton and Lisa Indar, Caribbean Public Health Agency
- A closer look at South Africa’s approach
- Interview with Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, chief executive, South African Institute of International Affairs
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Advocacy
- How can the world save $50 trillion by 2050 in the green energy transition?
- Jennifer Steinmann, global sustainability business leader, Deloitte, and Bernhard Lorentz, global consulting
sustainability and climate strategy leader, Deloitte
- Electrify and decarbonise: GE Vernova’s blueprint for a just energy transition
- Scott Strazik, chief executive officer, GE Vernova
- Financing the transition: why we need leadership
- Lindy Fursman, director of climate and energy policy, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
- Minas Gerais
- A beacon for global investment
- Financing a just transition means mobilising the private sector
- Leen Alsebai, general manager, RX Middle East, and head, World Future Energy Summit
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