Global Climate Action Summit 2018
VOD
Description
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action.
It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from countries—supported by all sectors of society—that can put the globe on track to prevent dangerous climate change and realize the historic Paris Agreement.
The decarbonization of the global economy is in sight. Transformational changes are happening across the world and across all sectors as a result of technological innovation, new and creative policies and political will at all levels.
States and regions, cities, businesses and investors are leading the charge on pushing down global emissions by 2020, setting the stage to reach net zero emissions by midcentury.
Informations
Co-Chairs
- Anand Mahindra, Chair of the Mahindra Group
- Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor of California
- Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
- Michael Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action
- Minister Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs of China
- Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
Speakers and Delegates
- Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of the City of Rotterdam
- Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President,
- Alec Baldwin, Actor and Activist
- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News correspondent and host of the Andrea Mitchell Reports
- Anne Hidalgo, C40 Chair and Mayor of Paris
- Bernard Tyson, Incoming Co-Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and CEO of Kaiser Permanente
- Catherine McKenna, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Dave Matthews, Musician
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
- Governor Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Diaz of Jalisco in Mexico
- Jane Goodall, World-renowned chimpanzee expert
- Jennifer Granholm, Former Governor of Michigan
- Johan Rockström, Leading planetary boundary scientist
- John Kerry, Former U.S. Secretary of State
- Kevin Cleary, CEO of Clif Bar and Company
- London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco
- Mae Jemison, Astronaut
- Mahendra Singhi, CEO of Dalmia Cement
- Manuel de Araujo, Mayor of Quelimane in Mozambique
- Marc Benioff, Chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce
- Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy
- Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever
- President Hilda Heine of Marshall Islands
- Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji
- Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados
- Ray Mabus, Former Secretary of the Navy
- Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston
- Tião Viana, Governor of Acre in Brazil
Civil Society Leaders
- Christiana Figueres, Mission 2020 Convenor and former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- M. Sanjayan, Conservation International CEO
- Richard Trumka, President of AFL-CIO
- Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- Sheela Patel, the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Center Founding Director
- Tom Steyer, NextGen America Founder and President
- Van Jones, News Commentator and Founder of Dream Corps
- Vien Truong, Green for All CEO
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International
