TCD-IMF Roundtable Discussion: Aligning the IMF’s Crisis Response with Climate and Development Goals

Description

Invited to and participated in roundtable discussion entitled ‘This time must be different: Aligning the IMF’s crisis response with climate and development goals’ held by the Task Force on Climate, Development and the International Monetary Fund (TCD-IMF) in Washington, DC. The goal of the event was to discuss how the IMF’s lending toolkit can be reformed to align with climate and development goals, how the newly created Resilience and Sustainability Trust can be scaled and rapidly deployed to this end, and how debt restructuring predicated by the IMF can be aligned with climate. The roundtable had 25 participants, including Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate in Economics and former Chief Economist of the World Bank), Martin Guzman (Minister of Finance for Argentina), Haiti’s Central Bank Governor and Minister of Finance, and Nepal’s Minister of Finance, as well as representatives from the IMF and World Bank. (13 October 2022)

Period	13 Oct 2022
Event type	Workshop
Location	Washington, DC, United StatesShow on map