BRIEFING: Forging a Global Solution for Global Warming -- International Perspectives

WASHINGTON – With all eyes focused on the ‘global’ part of global warming this week, both at the United Nations and here in Washington, Chairman Edward J. Markey and the Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming will host key climate negotiators tomorrow at a special briefing. The distinguished panel will feature German minister of the environment and three Special Envoys to the UN on climate change, two of whom are former heads of state.

This comes on the heels of an encouraging session of the UN this week dedicated to global warming, and in advance of a meeting the President has called with the top emitters of global warming pollution in the world. The President skipped the UN session, however, even though that has been the leading international body on global warming progress.

WHAT: Briefing with Select Committee and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change: "Forging a Global Solution for Global Warming: International Perspectives"

WHERE: 2175 Rayburn HOB 

WHEN: Wednesday, September 26, 10:00 AM

WHO:

Chairman Edward J. Markey, Chairman

• Opening Statement 

Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, former Prime Minister of Norway and former chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development

Mr. Ricardo Lagos, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, former Chilean President

Mr. Han Seung-soo, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and former President of the UN General Assembly

• Statement from all THREE UN Special Envoys on Climate Change

Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

• Sigmar Gabriel statement 

• EU statement on climate change and post-2012

VIDEOS:

Full video archive of briefing.

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