MEDIA ADVISORY
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Former
Mr Brown, widely respected as the global leader who rallied the world’s financial policymakers to respond collectively and with a sense of unified urgency to the financial crisis of September 2008, will speak on financial stability, systemic risk and sustainability.
“With the full effects of the crash yet to be played out, we need to return the world to the high water mark of global cooperation achieved at the London G20 summit. That degree of coordination must be the beginning and not the end of what we achieve,” the former
“By kick-starting this engagement on issues of systemic risk and financial sustainability with the United Nations community, my hope is to contribute to defining the new kind of thinking and action that we must embrace to address the challenges of a global economy when climate change, resource scarcity, commodity price volatility and income inequality, amongst other ongoing concerns, will set the future context for our finance sector and global capital markets,” Mr Brown said.
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On October 19, 2011, Mr. Brown will join the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Global Roundtable (GRT) to give the opening address. The meeting is a biannual, high-level conference that typically attracts a select group of 600 banking, insurance and investment leaders and global thinkers for an intensive, two-day dialogue on financial sustainability. Previously the meeting has convened in
Other confirmed speakers include Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP and Under Secretary General of the UN, as well as James Balsillie, co-CEO of telecommunications giant Research in Motion (RIM). RIM is the firm behind the Blackberry, and Mr Balsillie is a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel for Global Sustainability.
The 2011 edition of the GRT will take place on 19 and 20 October in