A webinar hosted by the United Nations Association of New York
Selwin Hart
UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team
Pete Ogden
Vice President for Energy, Climate, and the Environment
United Nations Foundation
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Thursday | 2 December 2021 | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. EST
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The recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) was eagerly awaited as a crucial moment for global climate action. But did it deliver?
Join us on Thursday, December 2nd as we bring together Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team, and Pete Ogden, Vice-President for Energy, Climate, and the Environment at UN Foundation, for a critical conversation on COP26 and an honest assessment of its achievements.
The event is part of UNA-NYC's ongoing effort to inform the public about global developments on climate change and follows our September 23rd event discussing this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Guest Speakers
Selwin Hart
Selwin Hart is Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action, and Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team. The Special Adviser ensures delivery of the Secretary-General’s priorities on climate change, from enhanced nationally determined contributions, fossil fuel and coal phase-out, ensuring public and private finance shifts and the transitions necessary to shift the world’s energy, transportation, land and natural systems in alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Before his appointment, Selwin Hart served as the Executive Director for the Caribbean region at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He was previously the Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States for Barbados and Director of the Secretary- General’s Climate Change Support Team, leading the team’s delivery of the 2014 Climate Summit and the Secretary-General’s engagement in the process leading to the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Throughout his career, Mr. Hart has served in several climate action leadership positions, including as a Climate Adviser for the Caribbean Development Bank, Chief Climate Change Negotiator for Barbados, as well as the Coordinator and Lead Negotiator on Finance for the Alliance of Small Island Developing States, a coalition of 43 islands and low-lying coastal States in the Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. He was a member of the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund Board from 2009 to 2010 and was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to serve as Vice-Chair of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (Economic and Financial) during its sixtieth Session.
Pete Ogden
Pete Ogden is Vice President for Energy, Climate, and the Environment at the United Nations Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was Senior Fellow for International Energy and Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress, Senior Advisor and Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, and Senior Advisor at the Rhodium Group. During the Obama administration, he served in the White House as Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Domestic Policy Council and Director for International Climate Change and Environmental Policy on the National Security Council, as well as at the State Department as Chief of Staff to the Special Envoy for Climate Change. Before his government roles, he was the Chief of Staff at the Center for American Progress. His writing on energy and climate issues have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and a variety of other outlets.