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RNS Professor Perez named member of a high-level UN panel
Carlota Perez, visiting Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at TUT Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, has been invited to participate in the recently established Economic Advisory Panel of a new UN Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
The Commission aims to analyze and communicate the economic risks and opportunities which arise from climate change, to understand the policies and investments necessary for a dynamic and innovative transition to a low-carbon economy and to make recommendations to the world’s governments, business and finance leaders on actions that could lead to lower carbon and more climate-resilient patterns of economic growth development, and poverty reduction.
The Economic Advisory Panel will contribute ideas to the framing and core narrative of the project, and members will be asked to comment on draft chapters of the report, along with the draft final report. The Panel is chaired by Lord Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics) and includes 10 members representing, among others, the World Bank, IMF, Harvard University and Princeton University.
Commissioned by a group of seven countries (Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Korea, Norway, Sweden and the UK), the project will be overseen by an International Council comprising former heads of government and finance ministers and leaders in the fields of economics, business and finance. The Commission aims to report in September 2014, in time for the UN Secretary-General’s Summit on Climate Change that month, and to inform and help shape discussions in the run-up to the UN climate change conference in 2015.
The project was officially launched on 24 September 2013 in New York just before the opening of the UN General Assembly. „Climate impacts are rising and the evidence of warming is increasingly clear, but most economic analysis still does not properly factor in the increasing risks of climate change or the potential benefits of acting on it,“ Commission Chair and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón said at the opening. „We need urgently to identify how we can achieve economic growth and job creation while also reducing emissions and tackling climate change.“
