What now? Next steps on climate change
The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, was a seminal moment in the world’s struggle to fight climate change. 197 countries agreed to limit the rise in global average temperature to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. But Christiana, who led those global climate negotiations as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, says the climate agreement was just a staging post in what remains a long, hard process. So what are the next steps?
Date:
29 October 2018, 12:30 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Speaker:
Christiana Figueres (Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016))
Organising department:
Oxford Martin School
Organiser contact email address:
events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2610
Booking email:
events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Hannah Mitchell
