On the occasion of the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) taking place from 30 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris, the Institut Pierre Werner (IPW) has organised a round table for Tuesday 10 November 2015 to understand these international climate talks.
COP21 will seek to assemble all the nations of the world in achieving a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the priority of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
To this end, the IPW has collaborated with the German Embassy of Luxembourg, the Institut Français du Luxembourg and the Information Office of the European Parliament to hold a round table discussing the issues to which the Paris agreement must respond.
The event will bring together scientists, politicians and representatives of French, Luxembourgish and German civil society to examine such questions as what progress has been made in conference preparation? What are the critical points to overcome to reach an ambitious text? Are the commitments made by the States sufficient to limit greenhouse gas emissions and keep global warming to below 2°C? Can we expect these political intentions to be realised?
The discussion will be moderated by Robert Garcia, former Luxembourg deputy director Rotondes, and will feature Dr. Silke Beck of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Brice Lalonde, Special Advisor for Sustainable Development with the United Nations Global Compact; Claude Turmes, Luxembourg MEP, Déi Gréng; Camille Gira, Luxembourg Secretary of State for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure; and Norry Schneider, Transition Coordinator Luxembourg.
The event will take place at 19:00 in the salle Robert Krieps of the Abbaye de Neumünster. The round table will be conducted in French and German with simultaneous translation. Entrance is free.
