As part of the official 2019 UN Climate Action Summit pre-events, the
High-Level Champions, Mr. Tomasz Chruszczow (Poland) and Mr. Gonzalo Muñoz (Chile) will host the Marrakech Partnership special event, “Summit to Summit: Reflections of pre-2020 action,” on Saturday, 21 September in New York.
The event will explore the burgeoning momentum around climate action from the 2014 UN SG Climate Summit to the 2019 UN SG Climate Action Summit, analyzing what has changed since 2014 and what still needs to move forward after the 2019 Summit to fulfill the aims of the Paris Agreement, including the immediate action required in the pre-2020 period.
The event will have the participation of UNFCCC Executive Secretary,
Ms. Patricia Espinosa, COP20 President,
Mr. Manuel Pulgar Vidal; former UNFCCC Executive Secretary,
Ms. Christiana Figueres; as well as heads of the MP coalitions and initiatives such as
Ms. Rachel Kyte; CEO of SEforAll;
Ms. Lise Kingo, Executive Director of UN Global Compact;
Mr. Nigel Topping, CEO of WMB;
Ms. Stephanie Pfeiffer, CEO of IIGCC;
Mr. Paul Polman, Chair of ICC;
Ms. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of ITUC;
Mr. Dominic Waughray, WEF, among others.