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Sustainable Finance from the South to COP30

YSI-Workshop

Start time:

August 14 @ 8:00 am - August 15 @ 5:00 pm

EDT

Location:

Rua Antônio Barros de Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Type:

Lecture

Speakers

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Luiz Fernando de Paula

Professor of Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Fernanda Feil

GIZ

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Margarita Olivera

Member of IDEAs and professor of the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Diego Guevara

Ex-Minister of Finance of Colombia and professor of Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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Daniel Ortega

BioCarbon and Former Minister of the Environment of Ecuador

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Charles Abugre

IDEAs

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Carola Mejía

Latindadd

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Carlos Aguilar

OXFAM

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Rogerio Studart

Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI)

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Klelia Guerrero

Latindadd

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Eduardo González

Climate Change and Environment Specialist at the Central American Bank for Economic Integration

Description

In recent studies, ECLAC has identified three development gaps for Latin America: environmental, social and external. This region is characterized by being socially unequal, macroeconomically conditioned by the dynamics of the external sector (through commercial and financial channels) and with growing challenges in terms of the protection of its biodiversity and natural resources.

The proposals to attack the three gaps through the financing of climate change protection, mitigation and adaptation activities, as well as the necessary energy transition, focus on the issuance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds, both corporate and sovereign; as well as different Debt Exchange (CD) mechanisms, especially by nature or in exchange for environmental services.

The growth and development of these tools in recent years at the global and Latin American level make them an important issue to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, some studies warn about the ineffectiveness of ESG bonds and Debt-for-Nature Swaps, in a scenario where the international financial architecture is characterized by asymmetric relationships, where many countries in the Global South face conditions in their economic policies as a result of their subordinate position in international monetary hierarchies (and therefore have limited fiscal space). Likewise, if the energy transition involves importing technologies from central countries, the external gap can be exacerbated and the dependence of the countries of the region can intensify. While the limited fiscal space of peripheral economies as a result of their productive conditions, monetary hierarchies, and institutional norms (fiscal rules) limit

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