This event will provide an opportunity for leading experts on social spending to discuss a new report from UNICEF, ‘Monitoring the Social Spending Costs of Climate Change for Low-and Middle-Income Countries’ which argues that investing in social spending will be key to managing the climate crisis.

CPI Analyst Rajashree Padmanabhi will speak at this event, which will include:

• Dominic Richardson, UNICEF Innocenti GoRAF
• Natalia Winder-Rossi, Director, Social Policy, UNICEF
• Catherine Agg, UNICEF Innocenti GoRAF
• Mozaharul Alam, Climate Action, Asia and the Pacific Office, UNEP
• Rajashree Padmanabhi, Climate Policy Initiative
• Jonas Teusch, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
• Amal Ridene, Young Climate Change Negotiator, Tunisia
• Peter Ragno, Social Policy and M&E (Egypt), UNICEF
• Bo Viktor Nylund, Director, Research, UNICEF Innocenti GoRAF