The Governance of Climate Change: Multilateralism, Human Rights and Democratic Deliberation Co-organised with the Association Luxembourgeoise pour les Nations Unies (ALNU). As the overriding existential challenge of our times, climate change further poses the ultimate challenge to our models and practices of governance at all levels. Effectively dealing with global warming will require all of: a reinvigoration of contested multilateral institutions; major, costly changes of national policy; robust community-level initiatives; and substantial changes in individual behaviour. The transformations demanded are thus paradigm-shifting to an unprecedented extent, while also engaging equally fundamental questions of human rights. Against this background, the present event provides a distinctive forum for the discussion of these existential challenges seen through an appropriately ‘Glocal’ prism, drawing out the interconnections of the international and local political arenas. Our panel of speakers will survey the development of the multilateral climate change regime from a human rights perspective, outline Luxembourg’s foreign policy objectives as regards human rights and climate change, discuss the findings and lessons of the national citizens’ assembly on climate change (Klima-Biergerrot), present the resolutions agreed by a group of some 50 secondary school students who participated in a recently concluded ALNU project, and provide insight into the organisation and functioning of the innovative Minett UNESCO Biosphere project. Speakers: Anne Goedert (Ambassador at Large for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs); Robert Harmsen (UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg); Raphaël Kies (Research Scientist, University of Luxembourg); André Rollinger, (President, Association Luxembourgeoise pour les Nations Unies); (Gaëlle Tavernier, General Manager, Pro Sud), moderated by Simone Beck (President, The Luxembourg Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO). A sandwich lunch will be available from 1 pm
Speakers: Anne Goedert (Ambassador at Large for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs); Robert Harmsen (UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg); Raphaël Kies (Research Scientist, University of Luxembourg); André Rollinger, (President, Association Luxembourgeoise pour les Nations Unies); (Gaëlle Tavernier, General Manager, Pro Sud), moderated by Simone Beck (President, The Luxembourg Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO).