Academy Special Briefing: From the UN Climate Action Summit to COP 25

Course

Facilitated e-learning

UN Partner

United Nations Global Compact Academy

Length: 1 hour
Level: Introductory
Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese; French; Chinese

Certificate: No
Price: Participants Only

In follow-up to the UN Climate Action Summit and a month before COP 25 in Spain, this session looks at how corporate leaders can keep the momentum going through ambitious climate action.

Sustainable Development Goals: 2030 Agenda; Climate action

Subject: Climate Action

Keywords: climate action; business; 1.5°C Pathways

About this course

In follow-up to the UN Climate Action Summit and a month before COP 25 in Spain, this session looks at how corporate leaders can keep the momentum going through ambitious climate action. The session will explain the next steps after the Climate Action Summit, with a view to how business can engage in the lead-up to COP 25 and beyond. It will also look into 2020, when — for the first time — countries will need to raise their ambition and submit their revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Speakers:

– Ambassador Luis Alfonso De Alba, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the UN Climate Action Summit 2019

– Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director, UN Global Compact

– Carlos Salle Alonso, Senior Vice President of Energy Policies and Climate Change, Iberdrola

Moderator:

-Dan Thomas, Chief of Communications, UN Global Compact