On 24 September the Trento Festival of Economics opens, focusing on "Environment and growth".
A fundamental question of our time - the organizers underline - not only for the need to intervene before climate change becomes irreversible, but also to understand how to revive the economy affected by the effects of the coronavirus.
The event, now in its 15th edition, this year - after being moved from the end of May to September - will be in a completely online version, without the presence of the public, due to the Covid emergency.
All matches will be streamed on the Festival website, in Italian and English.
A selection of events will also be broadcast live in Italian on the Facebook page.
40 meetings with experts are scheduled until 27 September, including 6 Nobel laureates, such as Lars Peter Hansen, one of the world's leading economic dynamics experts, and Michael Spence, who will discuss "pandemic and innovation".
Among the speakers also the governor of Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, and the popularizer and journalist Piero Angela, who will discuss technology and sustainability.
There will also be speeches by the Minister for European Affairs, Enzo Amendola, by the Vice-President of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Elly Schlein, by Paolo Guerrieri and Pier Carlo Padoan.
We will also discuss Carbon tax with the president of Terna, Valentina Bossetti, and decentralized and cooperative organization inspired by plants with Stefano Mancuso, an internationally renowned scientist who heads the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology of the University of Florence.
Laurence Boone, chief economist at the OECD, will instead discuss the challenges that economic policy, global and national, will have to face in the coming years after the pandemic.
The Festival of Economics is promoted by the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Municipality and the University of Trento and designed and planned by the Laterza publishers with the scientific direction of Tito Boeri.
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