From society to investments

14:00 - 14:05 - Welcome

14:05 - 14:10 - Session Opening – 5’

Main objectives of the Session #3 by Nicolas BUCHOUD (hosting team)

14:10 – 14.50 - Opening Insights and roundtable discussion 1 – 40’

Sustainable and quality infrastructure investements: building a way out of the crisis? Where we are with rolling global agendas (ex.: G20 ) and how can local governments follow up?

• Lori Benita KERR, Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist, Global Infrastructure Facility, the World Bank, Washington DC

• Dorothée ALLAIN-DUPRE, Head of the Unit on Decentralization, Public Investment and Subnational Finance, OECD

Respondent: Can impact finance and cities climate finance serve as a benchmark?

• Marie-Aimée BOURY, Head of Impact Based Finance, Société Générale

Moderated discussion with the experts.

14.50-15.20 - Keynote and roundtable discussion 2 - 30’

Cities were unjust already. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought prevailing situations to public eyes. Now, how can recovery policies tackle prevailing structural socio-economic challenges, in particular in the fragilities of the informal economic sector? (and is it a local or a global priority?)

• Prof. Amitabh KUNDU, Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information Systems for development Countries (RIS), India

Moderated discussion with the experts.

15.20-15.45 - Global disruptions, local solutions (is that it)? – 25’

Cities were active on multiple fronts already. Beyond global perspectives about the crisis and advocacy about ‘local governments’

• Piero PELIZARRO, Chief resilience officer, Milano, Italy

• Daniel BRIDGE, Program director, Royal Docks, London

Moderated discussion with the experts.

15.45-15.55 – Slido. Interactive feedbacks on the session takeaways

15.55-16.00 – Session wrap up and introduction of the Dialogue #4 Wrap up and brief presentation of the Dialogue Session #4