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Sponsored by 350NYC and the New York Society for Ethical Culture

In September, world leaders will met in NYC for a UN summit on climate change. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is calling on world governments to pledge support for an ambitious, legally binding agreement in 2015 to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

This forum focused on why we need an international treaty and why we must demand our government assume a leading role in these negotiations. Click here to purchase tickets.

Speakers:

Lester Brown, author, founder of the Earth Policy Institute (http://www.earth-policy.org), the Worldwatch Institute (http://www.worldwatch.org)

Bill McKibben, author, environmental activist and founder of 350.org

Ambassador Marlene Moses, Chair, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (http://www.mrfcj.org/about/) Former first woman President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Cecil Corbin-Mark, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Deputy Director/Director of Policy Initiatives

Sean Sweeney, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Director, Cornell Global Labor Institute

Donald Brown, Scholar in Residence and Professor, Sustainability, Ethics, and Law, Widener University School of Law.

Annie Willis: Teen Leader, Global Kids