A three-day Caribbean High-Lev­el Fo­rum on man­ag­ing the en­er­gy tran­si­tion gets un­der­way in Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day.

The fo­rum is a joint ini­tia­tive of the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment and the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), whose man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Kristali­na Georgie­va, ar­rived in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day to par­tic­i­pate in the event.

A gov­ern­ment state­ment said that the three-day fo­rum will bring to­geth­er gov­ern­ment min­is­ters, re­gion­al cen­tral bank gov­er­nors, pri­vate sec­tor stake­hold­ers, aca­d­e­mics, and mem­bers of civ­il so­ci­ety to hear var­i­ous pre­sen­ta­tions on the green en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley and the IMF Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor will be the main speak­ers dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Tues­day.

“There­after, there will be pre­sen­ta­tions and pan­el dis­cus­sions cov­er­ing a range of is­sues such as Tak­ing Stock of the Macro­eco­nom­ic Im­pli­ca­tions of the Green En­er­gy Tran­si­tion, Achiev­ing a Sus­tain­able and Eq­ui­table Green En­er­gy Tran­si­tion, in which Min­is­ter in Fi­nance, Ryan Straughn, will be one of the pan­el­lists, and Scal­ing Up Cli­mate Fi­nance – The Po­ten­tial of the Pri­vate Sec­tor,” the state­ment added.

It said that Mot­t­ley and Georgie­va will par­tic­i­pate in a pan­el dis­cus­sion en­ti­tled “How Can the In­ter­na­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty Sup­port the Green En­er­gy Tran­si­tion? and that “it is ex­pect­ed that at the end of the fo­rum, Bar­ba­dos and the re­gion would be in a bet­ter po­si­tion to achieve the var­i­ous tar­gets set to ful­ly tran­si­tion and im­ple­ment the var­i­ous green ini­tia­tives”.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Dec 2, CMC -

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