Webinar: COVID-19 IMPACTS ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA: UN Climate change conference (COP26)

The Geneva Environment Dialogues special COVID-19 series discusses the impacts of the pandemic on the global environmental agenda.

The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, United Kingdom, with the "Youth for the Climate" event and Pre-COP in Milan and Rome, Italy, in September and October 2020.

On 1 April 2020, the COP Bureau announced that the Conference and its preparatory meetings will be rescheduled to 2021.

Speakers

• Ovais SARMAD, Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Youssef NASSEF, Acting Director of Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress Division, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• H.E. Amb. Miriam SHEARMAN, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the UK to the UN and other International Organisations
• Marie Sol FULCI, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Geneva

The dialogue will take place from 9:00 to 9:50 on Webex and Facebook Live. Register here.