Climate Change: The Big Challenge

October 11, 2023

Chair                          

- Indermit Gill, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, World Bank Group

Presenter                    

- Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India

Discussants                

Rim Berahab, Senior Economist, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

- Ingrid Gabriela Hoven, Managing Director, GIZ – German Development Agency

- Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor and IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, London School of Economics (LSE)

- Hasan Tuluy, Senior Associate, Centennial Group

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