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Climate Governance Commission: Governing our Planetary Emergency

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A High-Level UNGA 2023 Side Event featuring H.E Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Chair of the Elders and lead Chair of Climate Governance Commission. The Climate Governance Commission, will be present and represented in New York City for UNGA/Climate Week sharing perspectives on urgent recommended governance transformations equal…

21 September 2023@ 9:30 – 10:30 EST

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Baha'i International Community at 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120 (corner of 48th St. and 1st Ave.) With hybrid/online option
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Climate Governance Commission

A High-Level UNGA 2023 Side Event

featuring H.E Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Chair of the Elders and lead Chair of Climate Governance Commission.

The Climate Governance Commission, will be present and represented in New York City for UNGA/Climate Week sharing perspectives on urgent recommended governance transformations equal to the climate emergency. The Commission is an independent body established to propose, and build partnerships that promote feasible, high-impact global governance solutions for urgent and effective climate action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C or less. The diplomatic and civil society roundtable at the offices of the Baha’i International Community, “Governing the Planetary Emergency,” will feature Commission Chair Mary Robinson, and Co-Chair Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd General Assembly, also with H.E Danilo Türk, President of Club de Madrid on the importance of climate leadership, along with other Commissioners.

Venue: The offices of the Baha’i International Community and online.

Format: A sixty-minute program with an opening segment, followed by a roundtable discussion where the Co-Chairs of the Commission and other Commissioners, in conversation with participants, will share perspectives on the current cross-roads in planetary and climate governance that the international community faces, sharing priority proposals form the Commission’s 2023 UNGA Statement.

Co-Sponsors: Baha’i International Community, Climate Governance Commission, CEEW, Plataforma CIPÓ, Club de Madrid, Earthna, Global Governance Forum, the Stimson Center, Villars Institute, and WRI Africa.

Welcome Remarks
  • Dan Perell, Co-Chair, Coalition for the UN We Need & Representative, Baha’i International Community
  • Brian Finlay, President and CEO, The Stimson Center
  • Maja Groff, Convenor, Climate Governance Commission
Co-Chairs
  • H.E Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders and lead Chair of Climate Governance Commission; former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Member of the Club de Madrid
  • H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa, Co-chair of the Climate Governance Commission and Member of the Global Women Leaders; Former Foreign and Defense Minister of Ecuador, and President of the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations
Respondent

H.E. Danilo Türk, President of Club de Madrid, President of Slovenia (2007-2012)

Commissioners
  • Sharan Burrow, Former General Secretary at International Trade Union Confederation (2010-2022)
  • Arunabha Ghosh, Founder and CEO, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
  • Thilmeeza Hussain, Permanent Representative of The Maldives to the United Nations
  • Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute (WRI) (invited)
  • Chido Mpemba, Youth Envoy at the African Union Commission and Youngest Diplomat in the African Union Chairperson’s Cabinet (invited)

Read the Climate Governance Commission UNGA Statement

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