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Financing the Green Transition – why we can afford it. Ann Pettifor, PRIME, GreenTalk 2011

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Speaking at GreenTalk 2011 in Bristol (UK), Ann Pettifor explains how national banks can at a stroke create credit to fund activities such as reconstruction following national disasters, and argues that the same approach can be taken to finance the ‘green transition’.

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Speaking at GreenTalk 2011 in Bristol (UK), Ann Pettifor explains how national banks can at a stroke create credit to fund activities such as reconstruction following national disasters, and argues that the same approach can be taken to finance the ‘green transition’.


Ann Pettifor
I’m Ann Pettifor, author and analyst of the global financial system, and co-author of The Green New Deal (2008). I predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis back in 2003, and in September, 2006 published The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave). I am known for my work on the sovereign debts of low income countries and for leading an international movement for the cancellation of debts, Jubilee 2000.

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