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Global Online Launch: 2023 Report of the Climate Governance Commission – Governing Our Planetary Emergency

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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…

28 November 2023@ 09:00 – 10:30 am EST | 3:00 – 4:30 pm CET | 7:30 – 9:00 pm IST

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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)

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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 RobinsonLead ChairChair of the Elders, Former President of Ireland
Maria Fernanda EspinosaCo-ChairGroup of Women Leaders, 73rd President of the UN General Assembly
Johan RockströmCo-ChairDirector, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Adriana Erthal AbdenurCommissionerCo-Founder, Plataforma CIPÓ
Bader Al-DafaCommissionerExecutive Director, The Global Drylands Alliance, Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability
Xiye BastidaCommissionerRe-Earth Initiative, Co-Founder, Climate Activist
Sharan BurrowCommissionerVice Chair, European Climate Foundation, Former General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
Sandrine Dixson-DeclèveCommissionerCo-President, Club of Rome
Arunabha GhoshCommissionerChief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
Thilmeeza HussainCommissionerPermanent Representative of The Maldives to the United Nations
Ma JunCommissionerDirector, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Beijing
Sophia KianniCommissionerFounder and Executive Director of Climate Cardinals; Member UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Wanjira MathaiCommissionerManaging Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Chido MpembaCommissionerYouth Envoy at the African Union Commission and Youngest Diplomat in the AU Chairperson’s Cabinet
Ellen Johnson SirleafCommissionerFormer President of Liberia and an Elder
Nobuo TanakaCommissionerChair, Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) & Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Ernesto ZedilloCommissionerFormer President of Mexico, an Elder, and Director, Yale Center on the Study of Globalization

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