Ahmed Saeed

Climate Change Energy

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Ahmed Saeed is the Vice President for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific at the Asian Development Bank

Ahmed Saeed

Feb 14 2023

Solving Decarbonization Requires Investment in Emerging Markets

Illuminem Voices

Climate Change · Environmental Sustainability

The last several centuries have each come to have a defining theme: the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Imperialism, the American Century. We do not know how the 21st will be remembered, but we can say with conviction what its defining goal should be: to grow the circle of opportunity until it reaches all of us, especially those in what is sometimes called the Global South. This task begins, and will be deeply intertwined with, the fight against climate change.