CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting

Photo Source: Flickr, Alamin hossain Tonmoy, 2015. Bangladesh Parliament House.

“Parliamentarians of Climate Threatened Nations Championing Planetary Prosperity”

International Webinar Organized by the Climate Vulnerable Forum in Collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Global Center on Adaptation

The CVF Global Parliamentarians meeting will take place on Wednesday November 25, 2020, 1200 to 1330 GMT. It is an inaugural global meeting of the parliamentarians of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and will explore practical steps that parliamentarians can engage in to combat climate change through more urgent and ambition actions and international outreach.

Keynote Panelists

• Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and GCA Board Chair
• Saber Chowdhury, MP, Honorary IPU President and Chair, Bangladesh Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• Martin Chungong, IPU Secretary-General
• Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of the People’s Majlis of the Maldives, CVF Ambition Thematic Ambassador, & Former Maldives President
• Loren Legarda, Philippines Deputy Speaker & CVF Parliaments Thematic Ambassador
• Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

Focus
This meeting will focus on three main points:

1. Enhanced Governmental Ambition under the Paris Agreement in 2020
2. Launch of Parliamentarians’ Program of Climate Threatened Nations
3. Build Back Better: Emerge Climate Resilient

Participation

• Parliamentarians from legislatures of the 48 CVF member states
• High-level global thought leaders
• Guest speakers from partner parliaments

You can also access the individual speeches given that day on the following pages, by order of appearance:

• H.E Saber Chowdhury – Introductory CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, MP, Honorary IPU President and Chair, Bangladesh Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• H. E. Ban Ki-moon – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting , 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and GCA Board Chair
• Mr. Martin Chungong – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Secretary General of the IPU
• H.E Mohamed Nasheed – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Speaker of the People’s Majlis of the Maldives and CVF Ambassador for Ambition
• H. E. Loren Legarda – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Deputy Speaker & CVF Parliaments Thematic Ambassador
• Ms. Mami Mizutori – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
• H.E Edgar M. Chatto – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Committee Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change of the Philippines
• H. E. Lord Allan Velasco – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Committee Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change of the Philippines
• H. E. Dr. Bimala Rai Paudya – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Honorable Member of National Assembly of Nepal
• H.E Dasho Ugyen Tshering – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Honorable Member of the Parliament of Bhutan and Chair of the Environment Committee
• H.E Dr. Ali Al-Zanem – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Committee of the Yemeni Parliament
• Mr. Youssef Nassef  – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Director of the Adaptation Division and Acting Director, Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress, UNFCCC
• H.E Saber Chowdhury – Conclusion CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, MP, Honorary IPU President and Chair, Bangladesh Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• H. E. Vincente Sotto  III – CVF Global Parliamentarians Meeting, Senate President of the Philippines