Ten Years on From Paris: Does the UN Climate Regime Need Reform?
About the Event
Ten years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Earth continues to warm, and communities around the world are experiencing the accelerating impacts of climate change—from extreme heat and rising seas to food insecurity and displacement. While the Paris Agreement created a durable framework for collective climate ambition, the current pace of implementation is falling short of what the science demands. To achieve the 1.5 degrees C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, the UN climate regime can and should evolve to drive more effective, cooperative, and impactful climate action. This evolution must be radical in ambition but solutions-oriented in execution—not a revolution, but a strategic evolution and recalibration of the system we already have.
Join C2ES for a panel discussion that will examine how the United Nations’ broader architecture, across the UNFCCC and beyond, can be leveraged to support the evolution, particularly in the context of intensifying climate risks, shifting geopolitical dynamics, and the growing pressure of financial constraints, including ongoing UN budget cuts. As demands on the multilateral system grow, so too must its ability to deliver.
The 30th Conference of Parties in Belém could present a critical opportunity to reorient the UNFCCC toward delivering transformational climate action. Taking place after full turn of the Paris Agreement’s ambition cycle, following the completion of first global stocktake as well as the submission of biennial transparency reports and new nationally determined contributions, COP30 should serve as a moment for reckoning and reflection. This panel discussion will explore how to make COP30 not just another checkpoint, but a catalyst for strengthening implementation and enhancing international cooperation across the UN climate regime.
The event will be moderated by Kaveh Guilanpour, Vice President of International Strategies at C2ES. High-level speakers for this event will be communicated at a later date.
Doors will open at 13:30. Please arrive early to guarantee your seat.
Please join us for coffee and networking following the panel, from 15:30-16:30. At 16:30, please join us for a second panel event on A 2030 Vision for the Climate Action Agenda at the UNFCCC, with a networking reception to follow, in the same location. If you wish to stay for the second panel event, register here.
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Both events will be livestreamed. If you would like to watch the livestream of this event, please RSVP for virtual attendance here.