Speakers

COP21 Speakers

In Chronological Order

Graham Stuart MP
Chairman of the Board of GLOBE International AISBL
Chair of the GLOBE COP21 Legislators Summit

Deputy Jean-Paul Chanteguet
President of GLOBE France; President of the Committee on Sustainable Development, Town and Country Planning, National Assembly of France

Laurent Fabius
Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the COP21/CMP 11

Christiana Figueres
Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Helen Clark
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Ángel Gurría
Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Margareta Wahlström
Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

Jacqueline McGlade
Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); ad interim Director of UNEP’s Division of Early Warning and Assessment

Lakshmi Puri
Dy Executive Director UN Women, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

Cedric T. Frolick MP
House Chairperson, National Assembly of South Africa, and President, GLOBE International AISBL

Deputy Arnaud Leroy
Secretary of the Sustainable Development Committee, French National Assembly; President, GLOBE Europe; Board Member, GLOBE International AISBL

Stella Bianchi MP
President, GLOBE Italy

Yves Mathieu
Director, Missions Publiques, Co-ordinator of WWViews on Climate and Energy

Senator Bukola Saraki
President, Senate of Nigeria; President, GLOBE Nigeria

Senator Ed Markey
Member of the U.S. Senate, Chair of the Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse; Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, International Environmental Protection, and Peace Corps

Hon Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga
Chair of the Water and Sanitation Committee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies

Senator Jorge Viana
Vice-president of the Brazilian Senate, former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil

Hon. Rep. Susan Yap MP
Member, House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines; Member of the Board, GLOBE International AISBL

Jairam Ramesh MP
Former Minister of Environment & Forests, India; Member of the Board, GLOBE India

Dr Kennedy Graham MP
President of GLOBE New Zealand

Bärbel Hohn MdB
Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag; GLOBE Germany Vice-President

Justice Antonio Benjamin
National High Court of Brazil –STJ; Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law

Lord Robert Carnwath
Justice, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Justice Luc Lavrysen
Constitutional Court of Belgium; Chair, European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment

Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti
Chief Justice of Argentina; Co-Chair, UNEP International Advisory Council on Environmental Justice

Judge Françoise Nési
Cour de Cassation, Supreme Court of France

Ségolène Royal
Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France

Deputy Claude Bartolone
President of the National Assembly of France

Eduardo da Costa Paes
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro

Dr. Naoko Ishii
CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility

Hon. Yuriko Koike
President, GLOBE Japan; Member of Japanese Diet and former Environment Minister of Japan

A Winning Coalition – Why California is Leading the U.S. Transition to Clear Energy
Tom Steyer
Business leader, philanthropist and environmentalist

What economic transition to the new climate economy means in practice: A view from Nigeria
Amina J. Mohammed
Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Nigeria

The Circular Economy – cutting carbon emissions and generating jobs. Findings of a new study by the Club of Rome
Dr. Anders Wijkman
Co-President of the Club of Rome and study author; Former GLOBE President at the European Parliament (GLOBE EU); Vice-Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation