Understanding the challenges faced by LDCs in COVID 19 recovery

This online event on Tuesday, 27 July examined the range of issues LDCs have to deal with in their efforts to build back better.

COVID-19 has spread quickly across the globe, shaking the world to its core. The world economy has been severely impacted, forcing governments to reconsider short- and long-term responses – both domestic and international – to the impacts. Governments are urgently looking into fiscal stimulus measures to get virus-struck economies on stable ground.

The full extent of the long-term impact on the economy is yet to unfold in the coming months and years, but the least developed countries (LDCs) will be the least able to cope with the impact. They are already challenged by multiple urgent priorities that require undivided financial and technical resources.

The panel of experts discussed multifaceted responses to climate impacts which are exacerbated by COVID-19, exploring questions and identifying options that can inform both policymaking and grassroots action.

Speakers were Sonam P Wangdi, chair of the LDC Group of the UNFCCC;
Isatou F. Camara, principal development planner in the directorate of development planning of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, The Gambia; Andrew Norton, director of IIED; Clare Shakya, director of IIED’s Climate Change research group; Anna Schulz, principal researcher and head of global climate law policy and governance programme in IIED's Climate Change research group; Sejal Patel, researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets and Climate Change research groups; Ritu Bharadwaj, senior researcher in the climate governance and finance team in IIED's Climate Change research group; Kevin Johnstone, researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group; Xiaoting Hou-Jones, senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group.

More information: https://www.iied.org/understan....ding-challenges-face