High-Level Thematic Debate on "Delivering Climate Action: for People, Planet and Prosperity"

Catherine McKenna (seated on podium at left), former Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and former Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada, moderates a Fireside Chat: "Taking Stock of the Road to COP26" speaking here with Nazhat Shameem Khan (seated at right), Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva and President of the Human Rights Council.

On the screen are (at left) Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Jochen Flasbarth, Co-lead on the US$100bn climate finance delivery plan and State Secretary at the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany.

The event is a part of the high-level thematic debate on "Delivering Climate Action: for People, Planet and Prosperity". The event will focus on the gap between current and required technical and financial capacities needed to achieve the 1.5 degrees target. The event aims to showcase best practices that simultaneously address climate action and the challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.