Former Finance Minister of Greek, Professor Yanis Varoufakis
lun. 23 nov.
|CONFÉRENCE VIRTUELLE / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
WHAT NEW INSTITUTIONS DO WE NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL GREEN NEW DEAL TO BE FEASIBLE?


Heure et lieu
23 nov. 2020, 13:30 – 15:00
CONFÉRENCE VIRTUELLE / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
À propos de l'événement
Discussing obstacles and choices for our humanity; unexplored opportunities and developmental dead-ends, and our critical dilemma: Self-realisation or self-destruction of mankind in an exclusive lecture for our University.
Speaker: Professor Yanis Varoufakis, Economist, politician, and bestsellers’ author, Former Finance Minister, Hellenic Government (One of the leading thinks and practitioners of the contemporary world)
Every major challenge humanity faces, from climate change and unbearable inequality to unpayable debts and involuntary migration, are global problems in need of international solutions. This is our conundrum: Never before have we needed global governance more at a time when many see the United Nations as dysfunctional, including good people working diligently at the United Nations. Clearly, we – and the governments representing us – have a duty to re-imagine new, international institutions capable of addressing these multiple challenges. In this lecture Ioanis Varoufakis outlines the new institutions that humanity must fashion if it stands a…