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<p><strong>Our Slim Window of Opportunity: What The Climate Change Agenda Must Achieve In 2021</strong></p>
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<p>An audio recording of this event is <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=c490ba04-dfee-4205-aa82-01ef2a7bfb4c">available here</a></p>
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<p>In a world beset by a global pandemic and an existential climate change emergency\, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa will provide her vision for 2021 and discuss why this year’s global climate change negotiations\, or COP26\, will play a crucial role with respect to addressing climate change\, building forward from COVID-19 and reinforcing the very concept of multilateralism itself. </p>
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<p>Patricia Espinosa (<a href="https://twitter.com/PEspinosaC">@PEspinosaC</a>) is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Ambassador of Mexico to Germany since 2012 and from 2001 to 2002\, Ms Espinosa was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico from 2006 to 2012\, bringing more than 30 years of experience at highest levels in international relations\, specialized in climate change\, global governance\, sustainable development\, gender equality and protection of human rights.</p>
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<p>Nicholas Stern (<a href="https://twitter.com/lordstern1">@lordstern1</a>) is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government\, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.</p>
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<p><em>This is event is jointly hosted by:</em></p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment">Department of Geography and Environment</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/LSEGeography">@LSEGeography</a>) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic\, urban and development geography\, environmental social science and climate change.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/">Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/GRI_LSE">@GRI_LSE</a>) was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment\, bringing together international expertise on economics\, finance\, geography\, the environment\, international development and political economy.</p>
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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/a-lecture-by-patricia-espinosa-executive-secretary-of-un-climate-change/
SUMMARY:A Lecture by Patricia Espinosa\, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change
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