A Clean Covid-19 Recovery: The Global Opportunity for G20 Leadership

Online Report Launch: July 7, 2021, at 13h30CET

The world understands that a green recovery can deliver large-scale job creation in the near term and contribute significantly to much-needed decarbonisation efforts.

In this context, the consultancy EY-Parthenon, with the support of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), has compiled a report with a list of 13,000 real and sustainable renewable energy projects identified in 47 countries. Using a unique methodology, EY asserts that these projects can kick-start a massive green and renewable recovery to begin immediately across the world. These “no regrets” investments to deploy the identified “shovel ready” pipeline will contribute over one fifth of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) commitments and can mitigate or reverse a substantial proportion of the economic losses due to Covid-19 across the countries included in the study.

The objective of this webinar is to launch and debate the key findings from EY’s global work in 47 countries and contrast its conclusions with policymakers and leading renewables experts, starting a dialogue on how the private sector, and G20 governments, developing nations and international financial institutions can be instrumental to unlock and materialise the full potential and benefits of a renewable-led recovery.