2nd Annual Forum on the Macroeconomics of Green and Resilient Transitions
June 16-18, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
Countries around the world are grappling with the impacts from a warming planet and the challenges and opportunities of an emerging global green economy. As they do so, Ministries of Finance and other economic ministries are facing daunting new questions. How to manage the fiscal challenges of investing in green energy, coping with climate risks, funding resilience, and supporting green manufacturing? How to build industries to compete in the global green economy? How to manage and overcome the impacts on workers and communities? How to manage emerging macroeconomic risks from shifting global supply chains? How to plan for and spur improvements in the cost and performance of technologies? How to coordinate rapid changes in many interlinked sectors, across many countries connected by trade flows?
With little time to lose, finance ministries and other economic ministries urgently need credible information and evidence to navigate these emerging challenges and opportunities. This requires close collaboration between these same decision makers and the analytical community on which they rely – in governments, think tanks, and universities. It requires new tools, methods, and datasets designed to answer the questions of today that match countries’ varying needs and capabilities. And it calls for a community effort to share ideas, methods, and lessons learned among those who develop analytical methods, those who apply them for policy assessment, and those who use the results for real-world decision making.
The 2nd Annual Forum on the Macroeconomics of Green and Resilient Transitions will bring together economic policy makers and applied economic modelers and analysts – from finance and economic ministries, development banks, universities, and think tanks – to work together on the information and evidence base needed for green and resilient economic transitions. The Forum provides an opportunity for Ministries of Finance and other economic decision makers to lay out their challenges, needs, and asks; it provides an opportunity for the analytical community to showcase methods and data that might meet these challenges, needs, and asks in diverse circumstances; and it provides a venue to discuss ways that these communities can better collaborate.
The Inaugural Forum was held in April of 2024 and was attended by over 120 experts, senior officials, policymakers, and modelers, including more than 45 representatives from over 20 Ministries of Finance. The Forum was co-hosted by the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and the Bezos Earth Fund, and it was co-organized by the Bezos Earth Fund, the Danish Ministry of Finance, and the United States Department of the Treasury, with substantial support from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
The 2nd Annual Forum will take place over two-and-one-half days from June 16 to June 18 in Copenhagen. It will include both plenary and parallel sessions with an attendance of 200+ participants. Attendance at the 2nd Annual Forum is by invitation only.
The 2nd Forum is currently being led by an organizing committee that currently includes Andrew Burns (Global Lead, Macroeconomic Modeling, Macroeconomics & Fiscal Management, World Bank), Benjamin Carton (Deputy Division Chief, Research Department, International Monetary Fund), Rebecca Cassells (Assistant Secretary, Climate and Industry Modelling Branch, Commonwealth Treasury, Australia), Leon Clarke (Bezos Earth Fund & University of Maryland), Nick Godfrey (Distinguished Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics), Stephane Hallegatte (Chief Climate Economist, World Bank), Mads Libergren (Senior Advisor, Green Policy Centre, Danish Ministry of Finance), Sam Mugume (Assistant Commissioner, Macro Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda), June Nyakahuma (Economist, Macro Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda), Lei Lei Song (Director, Economic Analysis and Operational Support Division, Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Asian Development Bank), Paula Suarez (Deputy for Coalition of Finance Ministers, Ecuador Ministry of Finance), and Frank van Lerven (Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action Secretariat).
Co-hosts include, the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, the Danish Ministry of Finance, and the Bezos Earth Fund, with support from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.