The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency of finding common and shared solutions to many overlapping global challenges: from the health emergency to skyrocketing debt, from climate change to barriers to international trade, from digital transition to heightened poverty and inequality. The Italian Presidency of the G20 effectively summarizes these priorities for the multilateral framework in 2021 in “People, Planet, Prosperity” and these are the topics at the T20 Inception Conference held on February 8 and 9.
Amongst many others, participants include: Paolo Gentiloni – European Commissioner for Economy; Alicia Bárcena – Executive Secretary ECLAC; Jeffrey Sachs – Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University; Emma Bonino – former European Commissioner and former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Tetsushi Sonobe – Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute; Virginia Gamba – Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict.
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The Think20 (T20) serves as the ‘ideas bank’ of the G20 and brings together hundreds of leading international think tanks to provide policy recommendations to the G20 leaders. ISPI is the National Coordinator and Chair of the T20 Italy, with IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali) as the T20 Co-Chair and Bocconi University as the T20 Summit Co-Chair.
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Relive the T20 Italy Inception Concefernce
#T20Inception – Opening
#T20Inception – Session: People
#T20Inception – Session: Planet
#T20Inception – Session: Prosperity
#T20Inception – G20&T20: in search for impact
Virginia Gamba – Keynote Speech
Alicia Bárcena – Keynote Speech
Fatih Birol – Keynote Speech
Jeffrey Sachs – Keynote Speech
Paolo Gentiloni – Keynote Speech
Tetsushi Sonobe – Keynote Speech