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Decarbonization: An Insurmountable Challenge?

January 17, 2023
09:45–10:30 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Purchasing commitments offer the potential to create new markets for innovative clean technologies, sending demand signals to enable the upfront investment and development of green products critical to the net-zero transition of economies. What are the additional policy and financial levers needed to reduce the risk premiums associated with new and nascent technologies? This session is...
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Speakers

MC
Mauricio Cárdenas
Professor and Director, MPA in Global Leadership
Columbia University
AG
Al Gore
Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder
Generation Investment Management
CM
Christian Mumenthaler
Group Chief Executive Officer
Swiss Re
OR
Odile Françoise Renaud-Basso
President
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
RW
Ronald Wuijster
Chief Executive Officer
APG Asset Management

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