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HYPE webinar - "The urgent need to build a new world order - a new international financial architecture - to tackle climate breakdown"

Dates
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:30
Location
Online
Contact
HYPE Team

Global disorder, including climate disorder, is the main outcome of an international financial system designed to put capital markets in the 'driving seat' of the global economy.

It is time to build a new world order. We know it is possible because it has been done before.

In this contribution, Ann Pettifor will explore how this can be achieved. 

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Presenter: Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor is best known for predicting the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with her book: The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave, 2006). In 2019 she wrote The Case for The Green New Deal. In January 2022 the Scottish government appointed her to its Just Transition Commission. In 2020 she became chair of the board of directors of A-Deus, an innovative, community-based clean energy company, based in Edinburgh whose aim is to deliver clean energy in Africa and elsewhere.