Climate Week NYC 2025 Studio Sessions

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Introducing PS Events: Studio Sessions, informal conversations between the policymakers, academics, and activists at the forefront of efforts to tackle the world’s thorniest challenges.

In this inaugural session, produced in partnership with the Iswe Foundation Coalition for a Global Citizens’ Assembly, join in as experts discuss the creation of a “citizens’ track” to support the annual COP process.

Speakers

Agenda

Moderator: Rosanna Lockwood
September 25 – Toward a “Citizens’ Track” at COPs
With the current approach to global climate action running into a wall, the search is on for creative ways to breathe new life, and legitimacy, into global governance. Can a permanent "citizens’ track" strengthen the annual COP process and make climate policymaking more responsive to real-world needs, both now and over the long term?
3:00 PMFireside Chat
  1. Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Honorary President of the Club of Rome and Executive Chair of Earth4All
  2. Arunabha Ghosh, Founder and CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Special Envoy of the COP30 Presidency for South Asia

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