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United Nations Headquarters & Online

April

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United Nations Headquarters & Online

Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan

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UNDP

April

23

,

21:00

CEST

CET

/

3:00 pm

EDT

EST

23

,

2024

,

United Nations Headquarters & Online

April

23

at

21:00

CEST

/

3:00 pm

EST

EDT

23

,

2024

United Nations Headquarters & Online

Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan

Watch Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan live on We Don't Have Time

UNDP

The stakes could not be higher – 2023 was the hottest year on record with several climate-related disasters devastating life, health, economy, and development.

The next two years are among the best chance we have to safeguard sustainable development and keep global warming below 1.5° C. The pledges under the Paris Agreement – Nationally Determined Contributions – are more important than ever.

Join UNDP and our partners for ‘Below 1.5 By 2025: The Plan’ on 23 April 2024 at 15:00 EDT / 21:00 CEST at the United Nations Headquarters and online on We Don't Have Time.

Let us break the norm and go beyond business as usual to inspire and mobilize collective action, while focusing on new ways of approaching the climate crisis, doubling down on solutions that work, and sharing lessons from the frontlines of UNDP’s portfolio in nearly 150 countries.

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Program Highlights

15:00 EDT – 15:10 EDT – Opening and Welcome

Speaker:

  • Ato Essandoh

15:10 EDT – 15:23 EDT – Bold Action: Addressing a Climate Emergency

Speakers:

  • Secretary General Antonio Guterres, United Nations
  • Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP
  • Hindou Oumaru Ibrahim, Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Coordinator of Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad

15:23 EDT – 15:30 EDT – Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan

Presenting UNDP’s Climate Promise 2025 to mobilize climate action through NDCs

  • Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change, UNDP

15:30 EDT – 15:38 EDT – Code Red: Scaling-up Support to for Collective Action on NDCs

Speaker:

  • Secretary General Antonio Guterres, United Nations

15:38 EDT – 15:43 EDT – Climate Action Explained

Showcasing climate action in Zimbabwe: Spotlight on sustainable energy

15:43 EDT – 15:53 EDT – Leadership and Progress

Showcasing climate leadership and celebrating examples of progress from around the world on designing and implementing ambitious NDCs.

Speakers:

  • H.E. Tatiana Rosito, Vice Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Brazil
  • H.E. Yashar Aliyev, Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations
  • H.E. Dr. Ali Naseer Mohamed, Permanent Representative of Maldives to the United Nations
  • H.E. Majid Suwaidi, Director-General of COP28, UAE

15:53 EDT – 15:56 EDT – Weather Kids – A Look into the Future

15:56 EDT – 16:04 EDT – Coffee, Climate and Innovation

Showcasing how the private and public sector partnering together are key to achieving climate change pledges.

Speakers:

  • H.E. Danilo Palacios, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ecuador
  • H.E. Sade Fritschi, Minister of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition
  • Mr. Mario Cerutti, Chief Sustainability Officer, Lavazza Group

16:04 EDT – 16:14 EDT – Collective Action

Demonstrating the collective commitment to climate action, NDCs and the Climate Promise.

Speakers:

  • Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • Chandra Tripura, Executive Council Member, Asia Indigenous
    Peoples Pact (AIPP)
  • Tomas Anker Christensen, Climate Ambassador for Denmark and NDC Partnership Co-chair
  • Anna Lerner, CEO of Climate Collective

16:14 EDT – 16:22 EDT – Closing Credits

Recognizing the donor partners supporting the Climate Promise

Speaker:

  • H.E. Antje Leendertse, Permanent Representative for Germany to the United Nations

16:30 EDT – Closing & End of Broadcast

Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan

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António Guterres

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Secretary-General, United Nations (UN)

António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), took office on January 1, 2017. He served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from June 2005 to December 2015, heading one of the world’s foremost humanitarian organizations during some of the most serious displacement crises in decades, and witnessing the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth, in refugee camps, and in war zones. Mr. Guterres has spent more than 20 years in government and public service. Mr. Guterres was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1976, where he served as a member for 17 years. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Guterres was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he chaired the Committee on Demography, Migration, and Refugees. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Guterres was born in Lisbon in 1949 and graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico with a degree in engineering.

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Achim Steiner

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Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

Mr. Steiner’s professional experience includes assignments with governmental, non-governmental, as well as international organizations around the world, most recently Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme between 2006 and 2016. He previously served as Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi from 2009 to 2011, Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 2001 to 2006, and as Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams, in South Africa, from 1998 to 2001.

Cassie Flynn

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US
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Global Director of Climate Change, UNDP

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

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António Guterres

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Secretary-General, United Nations (UN)

António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), took office on January 1, 2017. He served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from June 2005 to December 2015, heading one of the world’s foremost humanitarian organizations during some of the most serious displacement crises in decades, and witnessing the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth, in refugee camps, and in war zones. Mr. Guterres has spent more than 20 years in government and public service. Mr. Guterres was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1976, where he served as a member for 17 years. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Guterres was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he chaired the Committee on Demography, Migration, and Refugees. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Guterres was born in Lisbon in 1949 and graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico with a degree in engineering.

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Achim Steiner

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Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

Mr. Steiner’s professional experience includes assignments with governmental, non-governmental, as well as international organizations around the world, most recently Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme between 2006 and 2016. He previously served as Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi from 2009 to 2011, Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 2001 to 2006, and as Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams, in South Africa, from 1998 to 2001.

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Cassie Flynn

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Global Director of Climate Change, UNDP

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

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