Creating Policies, Coalitions, and Actions for Global Sustainable Development
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Date: 2021-10-08

More information at: https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/100821unep

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing to explore cross-cutting challenges—climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and pollution—facing the United States and countries around the world, and how policymakers are finding and implementing solutions to these challenges.

This briefing kicked off EESI’s Congressional briefing series, What Congress Needs to Know in the Lead Up to COP26. For more information about the series, visit www.eesi.org/1021cop26. 

Distinguished Speakers:

Sir Robert Watson, lead author of the U.N. Environment Programme’s report Making Peace with Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity, and pollution emergencies, will discuss the current and projected changes in climate and biodiversity and share the range of solutions that emerge when these issues are considered together in policy design and implementation. He is the former chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Former U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres will discuss the opportunity presented by the upcoming U.N. climate change conference (COP26) and will dive into ways governments and leaders can take meaningful action on climate change globally—an urgent need underscored by the findings of the Making Peace with Nature report. Ms. Figueres is a Founding Partner of Global Optimism, co-presenter of climate podcast Outrage + Optimism, and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis.

This briefing was Co-moderated by Daniel Bresette, Executive Director, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and Rosina Bierbaum, Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan; School of Public Policy, University of Maryland.

This briefing was part of a series made possible by our partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 - Start
05:24 - Sir Robert Watson, Lead Author, UNEP Report: Making Peace With Nature
28:29 - Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global OptimismClimate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
51:34 - Q&A

Topics and Speakers:

Sir Robert Watson
Lead Author, UNEP Report: Making Peace With Nature
Download Slides: https://www.eesi.org/files/Rober_Watson_Slides_20211008.pdf
Skip to presentation: https://youtu.be/GDj6IirEDeA?t=05m24s

Christiana Figueres
Founding Partner, Global OptimismClimate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Skip to presentation: https://youtu.be/GDj6IirEDeA?t=28m29s