The presentation aims to explore the interrelationships between poverty and climate change from three angles.

First, we present our broad conceptual framework of the co-evolution of poverty alleviation and climate change in growth trajectories, with as background the economic literature in the matter.

Then, as development practitioners in India, we present our insights, garnered through personal experience and observations over time, at two levels:

(i)  accompaniment of a set of rural poor as a social entrepreneur. After the tsunami of December 2004, Shyama Ramani founded Friend in Need, a NGO active on the Bay of Bengal coast in Southern India. Over time it has evolved to become a rural incubator for training qualified personnel to man local micro-enterprises active in sanitation coverage and waste management in rural India;

(ii)  accompaniment of public agencies by planning and implementation of designs for climate mitigation and adaptation as a consultant (based on inputs from Dr R. Venkataramani, Executive Director, ICF International).

Speakers

• Speaker: Shyama V. RAMANI (United Nations University, Founder of the NGO Friend in Need)
• Discussant: François BOURGUIGNON (Paris School of Economics, former chief economist of the World Bank)
• Chair: Teresa RIBERA (Director of IDDRI, former Secretary of State for Climate Change in Spain’s Government)

Registration

Participation is free but registration is required.

A closing cocktail will be held at the end of the conference. Please note that space is limited and RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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For external participants and more information, please contact Julie Cohen.