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Safeguarding the Planet

New Trilemma: Climate, Development and the Middle-Class

January 23, 2025
08:30–09:15 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

OECD countries are expected to spend a yearly budget of 2% of their GDP on green industrial policies in the coming years, a tenfold increase from pre-COVID times. As governments in advanced economies multiply efforts to combat climate change and restore the prospects of the middle class in their countries, they risk closing traditional global pathways to development. How can we accelerate...
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Speakers

HA
Haslinda Amin
TV Anchor and Editor-at-Large
Bloomberg News
AG
Al Gore
Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder
Generation Investment Management
TR
Teresa Ribera
Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
European Commission
DR
Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
GT
Gilberto Tomazoni
Global Chief Executive Officer
JBS

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