Seminar: Financing Global Climate Change Commitments: The Role of Public Finance

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Financing Global Climate Change Commitments: The Role of Public Finance”. The seminar will be held at the Pardee Center at 67 Bay State Road on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 am).

Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos will moderate a panel featuring Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher (Pardee School of Global Studies; Global Economic Governance Initiative), Faculty Associate Henrik Selin (Pardee School of Global Studies), and Miquel Muñoz Cabré (Global Economic Governance Initiative).

“Climate Finance and Developing Countries: The Need for Regime Development” by Henrik Selin

“Renewable Energy Investment in Africa and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)” by Miquel Muñoz Cabré and Mohamed Youba Sokona

“Fueling Growth and Financing Risk: The benefits and risks of China’s development finance in the global energy sector” by Kevin Gallagher, Rohini Kamal, Yongzhong Wang, and Yanning Chen

Speaker Biographies

Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher is a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative and the Global Development Policy Program.

He is the author or co-author of six books:

•    The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
•    Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
•    The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on Trade and Development Policy
•    The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (with Roberto Porzecanski)
•    The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky)
•    Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond

Gallagher has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America (with Daniel Chudnovsky) and Putting Development First: the Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs.

He is the co-chair of the Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows and has served as an adviser to the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, as well as to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.

Gallagher is co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy and writes regular columns in the Financial Times and the Guardian.

Follow him on twitter @KevinPGallagher.

Prof. Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press. He is the co-editor of two books, Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policy Making and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer). He is also the author and co-author of more than four dozen peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Selin is the faculty coordinator for the IR & Environmental Policy program. He is also a faculty member of the Center for the Study of Europe, and a Fellow with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

Prior to his current faculty position, Selin was a Wallenberg Research Fellow in Environment and Sustainability in the Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-04), an Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001-03), and an Associate with the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003-04).

Click here to visit Henrik Selin’s personal website.

Miquel Muñoz Cabré works on clean energy policy and finance. His research includes the effects of international trade agreements on national renewable energy policies. Miquel was a program officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Prior to joining IRENA, Miquel was a researcher at Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, where he worked on sustainable development, renewable energy, climate change, and global environmental governance. He holds a Ph.D. on Public Policy, a master’s degree in International Relations and Environmental Policy and a master’s degree in Environmental Management and Ecological Economics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Physics. Miquel has worked for research institutions including the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA), the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), the Worldwatch Institute, and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT).