On the last day of the Race To Zero Dialogues, the 19th November, the Club of Rome and the Potsdam Institute have the pleasure of organising the closing session from 15.00-18.30 GMT.

This full afternoon session will mark the end of a ten-day series of virtual dialogues, with the objective to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonised economy ahead of COP26. Titled Transformational Leadership, the session will bring together political, business, science and academic leaders who are leading on this economic transformation to conclude the Dialogues. The aim of the closing session is to build on the different sectoral outputs by highlighting the systemic opportunities to emerge resilient from the global health, biodiversity and climate emergencies we face. The session will focus on accelerating action by exploring new economic thinking and transformational leadership in the broadest sense, followed by closing remarks from the High-Level Champions and high-level guests.

We wish to take this afternoon to reflect on remaining challenges and future opportunities to move from Dialogue to Action as we enter this Decade of Action and move towards COP26.

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Full Afternoon Programme

15.00-15.15GMT - The Case for Systems Transformation

• Opening reflections by the narrator Lindsay Levin (Leaders’ Quest)
• Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of The Club of Rome

15.15-15.45GMT - Raising Ambition on the Road to Net-Zero: Highlights of the Sectoral Dialogues

• Highlights video compilation
• Meryam Omi, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment, LGIM
• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations Special Rapporteur
• Andreas Foller, Head of Sustainability, Scani
• Kaya Axelsson, Oxford Net Zero

15.45-16.25GMT - Transformational Economics to Meet Net-Zero Ambition

• Opening reflections by the Chair Tim Jackson (Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity)
• Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
• Naoko Ishii, Director of the Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo
• Jayati Ghosh, Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Maja Göpel, Director of Research, THE NEW INSTITUTE

16.25-16.30GMT - COMFORT BREAK

16.30-17.20GMT - Transformational Leadership to Meet Net-Zero Ambition

• Chaired by Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of The Club of Rome
• H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica
• H.E. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland
• H.E. Dr. Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of Bhutan
• H.E. Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal
• H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (video)

17.20-17.25GMT - Transformational leadership as the bridge to Glasgow

• Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform of Scotland (video)

17.25-17.30GMT - COMFORT BREAK

17.30-18.00GMT - Reflections on the Road Towards COP26 in Glasgow

• Nigel Topping, UK COP26 High Level Climate Action Champion
• Gonzalo Muñoz, Chilean COP26 High Level Climate Action Champion
• Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of The Club of Rome
• Marina Melanidis, Founder of Youth4Nature
• Dom Jaramillo, Event Coordinator of MOCK COP26

18.00-18.30GMT - Formal closing

• Nigel Topping, UK COP26 High Level Climate Action Champion
• Gonzalo Muñoz, Chilean COP26 High Level Climate Action Champion
• Carolina Schmidt, COP25 President & Minister of the Environment of Chile
• Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
• Marianne Karlsen, SBI Chair
• Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, SBSTA Chair