Climate Chamber Signature Series with Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate Professor

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Glasgow Chamber of Commerce are delighted to welcome Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate Professor as a speaker to their Signature Series of events.

About Climate Chamber Signature Series with Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate Professor

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Global Event Destination: How cities can address sustainability and host global events?

Glasgow’s is an global event destination. How can we ensure we can continue to attract global events, and meet our sustainability targets?

To discuss this we are delighted to host, Olympic Laurel Professor Muhammad Yunus who is working to develop a new model of governance for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games to ensure they are inclusive and sustainable.

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below”. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that “lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty” and that “across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development”.

At this event, global leader Professor Yunus, will share his thinking and approach to his task, and share his advice to cities like Glasgow who have ambitious plans as a global event city, but also committed to chieving net zero carbon by 2030.

Global Leaders: Global Perspective: Global Action

Delivered by the COP26 host City Chamber of Commerce, the Climate Chamber Signature Series in partnership with Scottish Government, offers a unique opportunity for businesses to unlock access to global innovators, thought leaders and business figureheads, and gain an understanding of their role in addressing the climate challenge and driving a COP26 legacy.

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