SID Next Steps in Climate Compatible Development

Next Steps in Climate Compatible Development

Center for Global Development and Sustainability, The Heller School at Brandeis

A Global Policy and Justice Series – Spring 2021

This talk will introduce the concept of ‘climate compatible development’ and will examine what a Global Green New Deal might mean. Maxwell will also address the question of personal engagement in solving this climate emergency. Maxwell is a development economist whose career spans over forty years of research and policy advice in the field of international development.

Prof. Simon Maxwell was President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland after he served for ten years in Kenya, India and Bolivia for UNDP and the British aid program. Maxwell was a Fellow of the Institute for Development Studies in Sussex from 1981-1997 and then served as Director of the Overseas Development Institute in London from 1997-2009. He was Executive Chair of the Climate and Knowledge Development Network and has written extensively on climate change and development. Maxwell sits on the Steering Committee of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report. In 2007, he was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to international development by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.