GLOBE COP21 Legislators Summit: Towards Coherence and Impact - The Challenge of Paris and the Post-2015 Agenda for a Prosperous and Sustainable World

This initiative is being developed in close cooperation with our strategic partner, UNEP, and is the central focus of this year’s GLOBE Summit.

The theme of integration between the 2015 UN summits is joined this year with a strong economic development dimension, assessing the implications of COP21 and the 2030 agenda for low-carbon development pathways. This year we also feature a special segment on the role of adjudication through the courts. The latter opens up for the first time a unique dialogue between legislators and the judiciary on how to secure effective implementation of the outcome of COP21, and the 2015 summits, in 2016 and beyond.

The GLOBE COP21 Summit is primarily intended for legislators, but leading members of the judiciary, policymakers, intergovernmental organisations, multilateral organisations, scientific community, academial, businesss, civil society and media are also being invited.

In a departure from traditional practice, the GLOBE Summit is also being opened this year to other parliamentary networks including the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, AWEPA, Women in Parliament, Climate Parliament and others.

This is in recognition of the momentous nature of the Paris climate summit, the 2015 summits, and the need for a strong and coherent response from the world’s parliamentarians on the implementation agenda in 2016 and beyond.

A key speaker at the event will be Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. In addition, one of the main sessions is "developments in national legislation on climate change, disaster risk reduction, energy & sustainable development - towards integrated national planning on the 2015 agenda."