Climate Action: Time for Implementation With Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD

Description

Please join us for a discussion about the international community’s collective response to climate change against the backdrop of the historic Paris Agreement. The Secretary-General’s remarks will look at both the progress since COP21 and the challenges ahead. He will focus on how the national horizon in decision making, albeit a factor in the success at COP21, is nevertheless a barrier to efforts to respond to climate change on the scale and with the urgency required. He will share his views on how we can overcome this.

Please note this event will be live webcast at the link below. Webcast viewers are welcome to submit their questions for the QA session on Twitter using the hashtags #OECDclimatetalk and #MunkTalks.

Keynote speaker:

Mr. Angel Gurría has been the Secretary-General of the OECD since 2006. Under his leadership, the Organisation has established itself as a pillar of the global economic governance architecture including its active engagement with the G20, G7, APEC and other international fora. Mr. Gurría has advanced the OECD’s impact and relevance in several policy areas, focusing on the promotion of better lives through inclusive growth and new approaches to economic challenges. He has also made the OECD more inclusive through the accession of new members, strengthening the link with key emerging economies and fostering its global outreach. Mr. Gurría came to the OECD following a distinguished career in public service in his native Mexico, including positions as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance and Public Credit in the 1990s.