COP 29 Side Event: ‘What Really Makes Us Safe?”

In collaboration with a number of Quaker and Interfaith organizations, QUNO will be co-hosting a side-event at the upcoming COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan that discusses the theme: “What really makes us safe? Peace, climate finance and climate action in an existential time”. An expert panel will involve the audience in a conversation touching on peaceful, healthy, sustainable and just climate finance and action to avert existential rates of global warming

The event will be moderated by QUNO’s Interim Deputy Director and Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change, Lindsey Fielder Cook. The panel will feature an array of speakers from across the globe including the following experts:

• Shirine Jurdi, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Lebanon)
• Deborah Burton, Tipping Point North South
• Andrew Okem, IPCC (Head of Science of the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit)
• Lucy Plummer, Soka Gakkai International
• Harriet Mackaill-Hill, International Alert
• Duncan McLaren, UCLA Law School

The event is co-sponsored by Friends World Committee for Consultation, Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), Soka Gakkai International – UK (SGI-UK), Soka Gakkai International Office for UN Affairs, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and Quakers in Britain.

It will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 6:30pm local time, in Side Event Room 6 within the Blue Zone.

Unfortunately, this event will not be livestreamed due to UN budget cuts. It will be recorded and Quaker United Nations Office will share a public link to watch the video following its release for all those not able to attend in person.