Follow-up visit to the New Climate Economy Conference in Budapest
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Director of the Prince of Wales's EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, visited Budapest on 17 June 2015
Director of The Prince of Wales’s EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s EU Office and Executive Director of the Green Growth Platform, Sandrine Dixson-Decleve visited Budapest on 17 June 2015 to meet senior economic policy makers, financial sector representatives and leaders of the Hungarian Economic Association.
Follow-up visit to the New Climate Economy Conference in Budapest
The visit was initiated by the Chairman of the Hungarian Fiscal Council and President of Hungarian Economic Association, Mr Arpad Kovacs. It took place on Climate Diplomacy Day, and focussed on low carbon finance solutions and the role of the financial sector in the low carbon transition.
Ms Decleve recorded a video blog with her host in the Parliament, gave a radio interview and met the Hungarian President’s sustainability adviser.
Ms Decleve recorded a video blog with her host in the Parliament, gave a radio interview and met the Hungarian President’s sustainability adviser.
The visit was a follow-up to the New Climate Economy Conference and high-level discussions by the Hungarian Economic Association, the British, French and German Embassies in February, which identified the finance sector’s interest in learning about the UK’s low carbon finance experience. The timing of the visit also served to amplify the messages of a related paper by the Green Growth Platform: Financing Global Low Carbon Transition.
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