Global Online Launch: 2023 Report of the Climate Governance Commission – Governing Our Planetary Emergency
Contributed by Climate Governance Commission
Posted 18 October 2023
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Please join us for the global online launch of the 2023 Report of the Climate Governance Commission.
Keynote Speakers, alongside other Commissioners:
- Mary Robinson: Lead Co-Chair of the Climate Governance Commission and Chair of the Elders, Former President of Ireland
- Maria Fernanda Espinosa: Co-Chair of the Climate Governance Commission and Executive Director of Global Women Leaders Voices, 73rd President of the UN General Assembly
- Johan Rockström: Scientific Co-Chair of the Climate Governance Commission and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Maja Groff: Convenor, Climate Governance Commission (Moderator)
Watch the event recording
Commission Background
The Climate Governance Commission (CGC) aims to address a crucial gap in confronting the global climate emergency by developing, proposing, and building 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. A foundational premise of the Commission is that new perspectives on and approaches to global governance — deploying new levels of collective wisdom and ingenuity — will be required to tackle current existential planetary risks and address the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
The world is currently experiencing the initial impacts of catastrophic climate change. The United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) has asked all nations to declare a state of climate emergency, underlining that, in the face of intersecting global challenges, “humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: a breakdown or a breakthrough.” Such a breakthrough, he notes, must be firmly grounded in global solidarity — we must work together as a “global family.” Shared global governance is the key framework for international solidarity and cooperation: innovative approaches, with upgraded institutions, laws, policies, and norms, will no doubt be required to tackle the current climate crisis and other interrelated international ecological crises. The Climate Governance Commission seeks to be pioneering in this respect, contributing to the thought leadership and “norm entrepreneurship” that may be necessary to safeguard humanity’s future.
For more background information on the Commission, please see the Commission website, where multiple sub-reports and the full Interim Report of the Commission can be found.
📌 Read the Climate Governance Commission's UNGA78 Statement here.
List of Commissioners
| Mary Robinson | Lead Chair | Chair of the Elders, Former President of Ireland |
| Maria Fernanda Espinosa | Co-Chair | Group of Women Leaders, 73rd President of the UN General Assembly |
| Johan Rockström | Co-Chair | Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| Adriana Erthal Abdenur | Commissioner | Co-Founder, Plataforma CIPÓ |
| Bader Al-Dafa | Commissioner | Executive Director, The Global Drylands Alliance, Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability |
| Xiye Bastida | Commissioner | Re-Earth Initiative, Co-Founder, Climate Activist |
| Sharan Burrow | Commissioner | Vice Chair, European Climate Foundation, Former General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation |
| Sandrine Dixson-Declève | Commissioner | Co-President, Club of Rome |
| Arunabha Ghosh | Commissioner | Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi |
| Thilmeeza Hussain | Commissioner | Permanent Representative of The Maldives to the United Nations |
| Ma Jun | Commissioner | Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Beijing |
| Sophia Kianni | Commissioner | Founder and Executive Director of Climate Cardinals; Member UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change |
| Wanjira Mathai | Commissioner | Managing Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute (WRI) |
| Chido Mpemba | Commissioner | Youth Envoy at the African Union Commission and Youngest Diplomat in the AU Chairperson's Cabinet |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Commissioner | Former President of Liberia and an Elder |
| Nobuo Tanaka | Commissioner | Chair, Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) & Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA) |
| Ernesto Zedillo | Commissioner | Former President of Mexico, an Elder, and Director, Yale Center on the Study of Globalization |
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