Christiana Figueres who is a key person in the climate justice movement is visiting the Philippines on February 14 -15, 2019. She would like to have a focused group discussion around the climate change issue with key persons from the civil society organizations, academe and religious sector.
As executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) from 2010 to 2016, Christiana was responsible for rescuing the process after the disaster at COP 15 in Copenhagen and steering the talks that led to the Paris Agreement in COP21. Currently, she is the convener of Mission 2020. “Mission 2020 is a global initiative that seeks to ensure the world bends the curve on greenhouse gas emission by 2020 in order to protect the most vulnerable from the worst impacts of climate change and usher in an era of stability and prosperity.”
On behalf of Mission 2020, the Global Catholic Climate Movement – Pilipinas (GCCM-Pilipinas) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) would like to invite you to this focus group discussion which will be held on February 15, 9:00 – 11:00am at Dolcelatte, 1616 Quezon Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. We can only accommodate one (1) participant from each organization/institution. Kindly submit the name of your group’s representative, together with their position/role, email address and contact number to Sr. Elizabeth (Bing) Carranza at gccmpilipinas@gmail.com on or before February 11.
