Finding Hope in the Climate - Peace - Disarmament Nexus

Event Date: 13th July 2023
Location: Internet 17:00 - 18:30

An inter-generational dialogue on how global governance solutions can tackle existential threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and war.
Hosted by Citizens for Global Solutions, Youth Fusion
and World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy

Session 1: July 13. Timed for Americas/Africa/Europe/Middle East. 
12:00-13:30 Eastern Time USA | 16:00-17:30 UTC | 17:00-18:30 London | 18:00-19:30 Central Europe
Zoom Registration for Session I 

Session 2: July 20. Timed for Asia/Pacific.
7:00 – 8:30 Central Europe | 10:30-12:00 Delhi | 14:00-15:30 Tokyo | 17:00-18:30 Wellington | 19:00-20:30 Hawaii (on July 19)
Zoom Registration for Session II

About the event

This panel discussion (with Q&A) will consider how progress on environmental protection is hampered by armed conflict, nuclear threats, and the massive diversion of resources into weapons and war, and how cooperation between the climate, peace and disarmament movements can amplify our impact and success. 

We will explore the potential of common security and global governance to foster inter-governmental cooperation in order to more effectively address climate, peace, and disarmament issues.

This inter-generational dialogue will bring together youthful energy and innovation with seasoned expertise and experience, actively engaging our audience to build stronger pathways to a peaceful and sustainable future.

Speakers:

Session 1: July 13

• Kehkashan Basu MSM (UAE/Canada)
  Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation. United Nations Human Rights Champion. Winner, 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize. Council Member, World Future Council. Former UNEP Global Coordinator for Children & Youth;
• Marie-Claire Graf (Switzerland)
  Co-Founder Youth Negotiators Academy and Climate Youth Negotiator Programme. UN Youth Climate Champion of Switzerland.
• Maja Groff (Netherlands)
  Convenor, Climate Governance Commission. Visiting Professor/Scholar at Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Lecturer, Hague Academy of International Law.
• William (Bill) R. Pace (USA)
  Founder and Inaugural Convenor, Coalition for an International Criminal Court. Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP). Co-founder, International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect.
• Professor Juergen Scheffran (Germany)
  Professor of Integrative Geography. Chair of the Research Group Climate Change and Security, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, University of Hamburg. Principal author, The Climate-Nuclear Nexus.

Session 2: July 20

• Tadashi Inuzuka (Japan).
• Co-President, World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy. Executive Director, 3+3 Coalition for a North-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. Former Senator from Nagasaki.
• Augusto Lopez-Claros (Chile/Spain).
  Executive Director, Global Governance Forum. Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Former Director of the Global Indicators Group in DEC of the World Bank.
• Nicole Ponce (Philippines)
  Co-Founder and Coordinator, I am Climate Justice movement.Asia Front Coordinator, World’s Youth for Climate Justice.
• Disha Ravi (India)
  Co-founder, Fridays for Future India.
• Justin Sobion (Trinidad and Tobago)
  PhD Candidate (Environmental Law) and Teaching Assistant, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University of Auckland. Coordinator, Earth Trusteeship Working Group. Co-editor, “Reflections on Earth Trusteeship: Mother Earth and a new 21st Century governance paradigm.”

Quotes from some of our speakers – next generation leaders

Cosponsoring organizations

3+3 Coalition for a North-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, Basel Peace Office, Citizens for Global Solutions, Climate Governance Commission, Democracia Global, Green Hope Foundation, I Am Climate Justice, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, UNFOLD ZERO, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, World Future Council, World Service Authority, World’s Youth for Climate Justice, Young World Federalists and Youth Fusion.