MOTIVATION | How can businesses and governments work together to achieve and advance the sustainable goals outlined in the 2015 Paris climate negotiations (COP21)?
CONCEPT | Draw on lessons shared from those running and participating in the COP21 negotiations to identify opportunities for partnership, emphasizing the urgency and consequences of inaction.
EXECUTION | Two panels explored the threats of climate change and the urgency of action. The first panel included Inter-American Development Bank Luis Alberto Moreno and Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council.
The second panel featured Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary for UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, John Silk, Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, and Martyn Parker, Chairman of Global Partnerships, Swiss Re, and was moderated by GOOD Co-Founder Max Schorr.
BACKSTAGE | As I prepared the speakers backstage, Christiana Figueres wryly looked at me and asked, " Do you think it was necessary to print out so many briefing documents?"
