Vera Songwe, a non-resident senior fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and co-chair of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, joins Katerina Atkins, programme coordinator at OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to explore the key outcomes and challenges from the COP28 climate summit. They discuss the agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, the conclusion of the first global stocktake, the loss and damage fund, as well as the financial needs and innovative financing mechanisms to address climate change.
2021 review: the European borrowing landscape
Retail CBDC and its implications for the European Monetary Union
Climate change could lead to substantial capital shortfalls for banks
Scaling up carbon-offset markets to support global climate action
Lessons learned building offline CBDC
Adopting standards for electronic data interchange between financial institutions
Common prosperity and state of US-China relations
Part 2: Financial services and transitioning to net zero
Crypto currencies and digital assets
Ahead of the ECB: is a rise in interest rates on the horizon?
Do we need programmable central bank digital currency?
Kazakhstan’s economic growth and investment potential
Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2021
The Italian G20 Presidency
Developing sustainable business models: driving private investment into climate mitigation
CBDC implementation models and the role of the private sector
Part 1: Financial services and transitioning to net zero
The productivity question: working from home during Covid-19
In conversation with the governor: Benjamin Diokno, governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Ahead of the ECB
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