Tue, 28 June 2022
13:00 - 14:00
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Tue, 28 June 2022
13:00 - 14:00
Online via Zoom - link will only be available in IOB Learn
From your desktop__
From IOB Learn App
This event is now closed
The financial services sector is key in securing a habitable planet in the decades ahead. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded with the stark warning that we have ‘a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all’.
To enable a rapid transition to a low-carbon and ecologically sustainable economy, the finance sector needs to drive significant investment (and selective divestment), as governments alone cannot finance and achieve the targets for emissions reductions and rise to the challenge and opportunities of the planetary emergency.
What can the financial sector do to respond at the urgency needed?
Presented by the IOB Belfast Committee, join Professor John Barry online for this important presentation and join the conversation.
There is 1 CPD hour for the following designations:
QFA- Savings and Investment
APA- Savings and Investment
Registered Stockbroker
LCI
Professional Banker
Chartered Banker
AFP
CIFD
AMP
WMP
He is an experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in higher education.
John is a published author and experienced in teaching, researching and publishing in Political Science, Economics, Sustainability, Research Design.
He promotes engaged research via public speaking and participatory research with community groups and citizens on fuel poverty, climate change and low carbon energy transitions.