Toward a G7 Climate Club?

At the G7 Summit held in June of this year, Leaders “endorsed the goals of an open and cooperative international Climate Club” and committed to working with partners toward its establishment by year-end. A stand-alone G7 statement on Climate Club linked its creation to “accelerating climate action and increasing ambition” to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. However, the precise mechanisms by which the Club will accelerate the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions are unclear; while the qualifications, incentives, and obligations of Club membership are to be defined.

Please join the CSIS Economics Program for an expert panel discussion on the merits and challenges of a G7 Climate Club. Dr. Steffen Meyer, Director General for Economic, Financial and Climate Policy at the German Federal Chancellery, will kick off the discussion with a brief description of the Climate Club proposal.

Panelists:

Amar Bhattacharya
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution

Claire Healy
Director, E3G U.S. Office

Danae Kyriakopoulou
Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics

Dr. Steffen Meyer
Director General for Economic, Financial and Climate Policy at the German Federal Chancellery

Moderated by:

Stephanie Segal
Senior Fellow, Economics Program

This event is made possible through support from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.