Yanis Varoufakis | The prevailing economic relations contribute to Poverty and Climate Change

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, author, and politician who served as the Greek Minister of Finance in 2015. Since then, Varoufakis has launched the pan-European ‘Democracy in Europe Movement 2025’. In this talk, he will argue ‘The prevailing economic relations contribute to Poverty and Climate Change ’. The UNCCD – Capacity Development & Innovations Office is organizing the first UNCCD-CDIO Virtual Panel Discussion 2020. The debate discussed the relations between the following three major, interrelated topics: poverty and inequalities, economic systems, and climate change mitigation.

Is Poverty necessary in the world to mitigate Climate Change? This Global Panel Discussion was streamed online on Friday, June 5th, concurring with World Environment Day. During the event international experts, economists, politicians, and public figures will debate on these topics and on the relations between them.