Press Briefing: G7 Summit: Rich Countries and Their Climate Promises

Ahead of the G7 summit, CCNow invited two distinguished experts to brief journalists:

– Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka and a professor at the Independent University Bangladesh; he helped train diplomats from the global South who inserted the 1.5 C goal in the Paris Agreement.

– Rachel Kyte is the dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston; she was the World Bank Group’s special envoy to the Paris Agreement negotiations and later a special representative of the UN Secretary General.

The event was moderated by Mark Hertsgaard, the executive director of Covering Climate Now.