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G20 Italy 2021

Promoting energy efficiency financing within the G20: the role of fiscal instruments

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Tapan Sarker, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino (Financial Research Centre, FSA Institute)
G20 Italy 2021

Repurposing agricultural policy support for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Policy area: Global Cooperation for Financing SDGs
Madhur Gautam, David Laborde Debucquet (Markets, Trade and Institutions Division- International Food Policy Research Institute), Will Martin, Valeria Piñeiro (International Food Policy Research Institute ), Rob Vos
G20 Italy 2021

Avoiding a carbon trade war: G20 dialogue and coordination and the European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Jan Cernicky (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin (Germany)), Bernice LEE, Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz (International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD))
G20 Italy 2021

Accelerating youth-led transformative actions through ICT-enabled education for sustainable development

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Dinah Bennett (Enterprise Development, Women’s Economic Imperative), Leila Dagher (American University of Beirut), Charlotte Holland (Dublin City University), Noura Mansouri King (Center (KAPSARC), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)), Huan Ni (Shanghai Green Light-Year Environmental Service Center)
G20 Italy 2021

Localising the circular economy imperative in a post Covid-19 era: Place, trade and multilateralism

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna (German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ), Bonn (Germany)), Venkatachalam Anbumozhi (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), , Alexander Charalambous (Living Prospects), Edoardo Croci (Bocconi University), Himani Jain, Martin Kochhan, Hemant Mallya, Shuva Raha (Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)), Tetsushi Sonobe (Asian Development Bank Institute)
G20 Italy 2021

Policy direction for sustainable communities and combating energy poverty

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Brian Statham, Gabriella De Maio (University Federico II, Naples (Italy)), Romano Borchiellini
G20 Italy 2021

Clean-IT: Policies to support sustainable digital technologies

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Mei Lin Fung (People Centered Internet), Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
G20 Italy 2021

Resetting low carbon green growth policies through stimulus packages in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), Muhammad Cholifihani (Ministry of National Development Planning/ National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Jakarta (Indonesia)), Takashi Hongo (Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute, Tokyo (Japan)), Kaliappa Kalirajan (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University), Jootae Kim (Dankook University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Huifang Tian (Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) (CASS), Beijing (China)), Peter Wolff (German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn (Germany), Ritu Mathur (The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi (India)
G20 Italy 2021

Designing recovery packages to be consistent with low-carbon transitions

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Dan Andrews (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris (France)), Alain De (Serres Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris (France))
G20 Italy 2021

Fixing financial, economic and governance structures to save forests and the ocean, and enhance their contributions to climate change solutions

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
R. Andreas Kraemer (Ecologic Institute, Berlin (Germany)), Leonardo Massai (Coalition for Rainforest Nations, New York NY (USA)), Michael Orbach (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA)), Nico Stelljes (Ecologic Institute, Berlin (Germany)), Torsten Thiele, John Virdin, Paul De Noon (Coalition for Rainforest Nations, New York NY (USA))
G20 Italy 2021

International cooperation to accelerate the development and deployment of the circular carbon economy

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Bassam Fattouh (Director Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK), Giacomo Luciani, Noura Mansouri (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)), Manal Shehabi (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (UK)), Adnan Shihab-Eldin (Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Kuwait), Kirsten Westphal
G20 Italy 2021

Nature-based solutions for climate change, clean energy & health

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Andrey Shelepov (Center for International Institutions Research (CIIR), Moscow (Russia)), Brittaney Warren, James Hospedales (EarthMedic and EarthNurse Foundation), John Kirton (G20 Research Group), Laura Schaefli (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution), Marina Larionova (Center for International Institutions Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), Rachael Kupka (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution), Rajani Ranjan Rashmi (The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi (India), Thomas Crowther, Thomas Elliott
G20 Italy 2021

Plastics in a circular carbon economy

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Adam Bouloukos, Michael Wang, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten King (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia))
G20 Italy 2021

Promoting sustainable agriculture in smart cities

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Ghadah Al-Dabbagh, Mrinmoy Chakraborty, Nikos Dimitriou (National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”), Brian Lee
G20 Italy 2021

International coordination and policy instruments to promote a hydrogen economy: a focus on the steel-making industry

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Sonja Butzengeiger (Perspectives Climate Research), Axel Michaelowa (University of Zurich), Dario Brescia, Luca Franza, Bart Kolodziejczyk
G20 Italy 2021

Climate change, food security, and central banks in developing economies

Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Channing Arndt (International Food Policy Research Institute), Christopher Loewald (South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria (South Africa)), Faaiqa Hartley (University of Cape Town (South Africa)), Konstantin Makrelov

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