COP 29 Side Event: ‘What Really Makes Us Safe?”

In collaboration with a number of Quaker and Interfaith organizations, QUNO co-hosted a side-event at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan discussing the theme: “What really makes us safe? Peace, climate finance and climate action in an existential time”. An expert panel involved the audience in a conversation touching on peaceful, healthy, sustainable and just climate finance and action to avert existential rates of global warming

The event was moderated by QUNO’s Interim Deputy Director and Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change, Lindsey Fielder Cook. The panel featured an array of speakers from across the globe including the following experts:

• Shirine Jurdi, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Lebanon)
• Deborah Burton, Tipping Point North South
• Andrew Okem, IPCC (Head of Science of the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit)
• Lucy Plummer, Soka Gakkai International
• Harriet Mackaill-Hill, International Alert
• Duncan McLaren, UCLA Law School

The event was co-sponsored by Friends World Committee for Consultation, Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), Soka Gakkai International – UK (SGI-UK), Soka Gakkai International Office for UN Affairs, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and Quakers in Britain.

It took place on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 6:30pm local time. A recording of the event was made by the UNFCCC and can be accessed on YouTube here.