The virtual seminar hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics focused on the shifts required in the trajectories emerging economies take as they navigate the changing and challenging terrain of climate finance. With a solutions-focused approach that leverages energy system reforms and finance mobilisation, the event unpacked how the scale of change sought by the global community can be achieved. Montek Singh Ahluwalia elaborated on the impact that climate change has had on country GDPs and productivity, and how commitments made at COP26/COP27 provide an opportunity to begin exploring how responsibility for reducing carbon emissions can be shared amongst developed and developing countries:

• What does it look like to take differential responsibility?
• Who is financing this Net Zero/Just Transition across the world?
• How can developing countries best plan for critical negotiations and their own futures?
  

Event Speaker:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Distinguished Fellow, CSEP, Economist and former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India

Event Panel:
Professor Nicholas Stern: IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Co-Director of the India Observatory and Chair, Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics

Mike Hemsley: Leads the analysis for the Energy Transitions Commission

Bob Ward: Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, Deputy Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership and the Policy and Communications Director for the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Danae Kyriakopoulou: Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

Additional Comments:
Harinder Singh Kohli: Founding Director and Chief Executive of Emerging Markets Forum

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