Join UK Special Representative on Climate and Professor of Climate Policy Rachel Kyte for an engaging conversation with Todd Stern, the former US Special Envoy for Climate Change and a leading voice on global climate policy.

In his book, Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, Stern offers a firsthand account of the complex, high-stakes negotiations that led to the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a global accord to combat climate change.

Speaker Biographies:

Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a non-resident distinguished fellow at the Asia Society, concentrating on climate change. He served from January 2009 until April 2016 as the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State, where he was President Barack Obama’s chief climate negotiator, dedicating his career to addressing the urgent issue of climate change and leading the US effort in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations. Todd Stern also participated in the development of US domestic climate and clean energy policy.

Rachel Kyte is a Professor of Practice in Climate Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and special representative on climate for the UK government. She is Dean Emerita of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she was the first woman to lead the United States’ oldest graduate-only school of global affairs. Rachel served as special representative of the UN secretary-general and chief executive officer of Sustainable Development for All (SEforALL). She previously was the World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change and served as an advisor to the UN secretary-general on climate action and the crisis response to the invasion of Ukraine, chaired the Rwandan Green Fund (FONERWA) and advised the UK government on COP26.