There is an urgent need to rebuild our local and national economies to support their recovery from the impacts of Covid-19.

If companies, governments and policy makers are serious about delivering upon their legal obligations of net-zero, and dealing with the economic and social threat of climate change, this economic recovery must focus on the principles of resilience and sustainability.

This webinar will introduce Project Cygnus, a €1M EIT Climate-KIC funded programme. Led by Icebreaker One in partnership with the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence at University of Edinburgh, University College Dublin, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this project is designed to help drive a net-zero, post-Covid-19 economic recovery. It will do this through creating useful analytics, tooling and policy recommendations for cities, organisations and governments struggling to navigate Covid-19 and climate related challenges.

WHO:

• Gavin Starks, CEO and Founder, Icebreaker One;
• Damien McGarrigle, Financial Services & Fintech Team Lead, Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence at University of Edinburgh;
• Andreas Hoepner, Professor of Operational Risk, Banking & Finance, University College Dublin;
• Julie Calkins, Head of Risk Information for Climate Adaptation, EIT Climate-KIC.

The session will be chaired by Gavin Starks (CEO and founder of Icebreaker One and Co-Chair of the UK’s Open Banking Standard) and will elaborate on ways to address the underlying data infrastructure to enable the economic modelling needed to recover from Covid-19 and achieve net-zero.

The project lays the foundations for future work in 2021, helping regions around the world meet their net-zero commitments while addressing the greatest economic challenges of our time.