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The Sussex Sustainability Research Programme () recently co-organised a webinar on ‘Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability in the Context of SDGs and Covid-19’ in collaboration with the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals () and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ().

Held on 30 November 2021, the virtual event discussed latest findings on the environmental impact of financial crises, joint-research on the nature and implications of the ‘financial crises – poverty – sustainability nexus’, and the need for a new ‘eco-social contract’ to sustain the transformative vision of the 2030 Agenda. Speakers included: Dr Andreas Antoniades (AVÊÓƵ, School of Global Studies), Dr Alexander Antonarakis (AVÊÓƵ, School of Global Studies), Anne Juepner (UNDP), Jonathan Gilman (UNEP), Isabell Kempf (UNRISD) and Muhammad Amir Ansari (Institute of Business Management, IoBM).

Further information on the webinar, including agenda, speakers and recorded sessions, is available on the . The full recording of the webinar can be re-watched and accessed .

The webinar is part of a joint initiative by SSRP, UNDP-UNEP-PEA and UNRISD that aims to analyse the complex ways in which financial crises, poverty and the environment interact in the context of sustainability transition. On the SSRP side, the project is led by and .     

Further research outputs include:

• Special Issue on
• Edited book on

This project was funded by the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (). Further information about the project and research findings can be found on the SSRP website.