The Resilience and Sustainability Trust - A Dialogue with Countries

The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust is open for business and provides funding for countries to invest in the seismic changes taking place in the world, like climate change and pandemics. It also can help countries raise more private financing to help them adapt to a changing world.

Join Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the Wolrd Trade Organization, and Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation for a conversation about countries’ early experiences and their plans for their funding from the Trust, moderated by Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Barbados is 300K population, makes little difference to the needle. The large middle income emitters are India and China accounting for 2.5 billion people. Almost a third of the planet. You need to engage them as a matter of urgency to move the needle on emissions.