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available UN Webcasts on Climate Change

Daily Noon Press Briefings by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

• 24 September 2007: Guest at noon: Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, to brief on the success of the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer and its relevance to the multilateral climate change process [27 minutes]
• 4 September 2007: Guest at noon: Richard Kinley, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to brief on the upcoming High-Level Session on Climate Change (24 September) [43 minutes]
• 1 August 2007: Guest at Noon: Dr. Jacques Diouf, the Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, briefs on "Significance of Climate Change on Agriculture" [46 minutes]
• 28 June 2007: Guest at noon: Anwarul Chowdhury, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States to launch the Climate Change Report 2007 [56 minutes]
• 9 May 2007: Guest at noon: Dr. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, to brief on the effect of climate change on the world's cities [45 minutes]
• 20 March 2007: Guest at noon: Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change briefs journalists on his meeting with environmental ministers at the G-8+5 meeting, that took place this last weekend in Germany [46 minutes]

Press Conferences

• 24 September 2007: Joint press conference by the Secretary-General; H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia; and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to brief on the High-Level Event on Climate Change [34 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: H.E. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to brief on climate change [27 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: H.E. Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden; Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United NationsEnvironment Programme; Brad Irwin, President of Cadbury Adams; Rana Kapoor, CEO of YesBank, India; James Cameron, Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project; and Mark Goldfus, Head of Public Policy at Merrill Lynch, to brief on the release of new survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project [29 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: H.E. Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland, to brief on the High-Level Event on Climate Change [29 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: Sze Ping of Greenpeace China; Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth International; and Hans Verolme of World Wildlife Fund's Global Climate Change Program, to hold a civil society press conference on the High-Level Event on Climate Change [15 minutes]
• 22 September 2007: Yvo De Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, to brief on the High-level Event on Climate Change [47 minutes]
• 20 September 2007: June Zeitlin, Executive Director, and Lorena Aguilar, Board member, of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, to brief on the impact of climate change on women [34 minutes]
• 1 August 2007: Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, briefs in connection with the General Assembly thematic debate on climate change [38 minutes]
• 31 July 2007: Panelists from the General Assembly thematic debate on climate change Sir Nicholas Stern, of the London School of Economics; Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy; and Sunita Narain, writer and environmental campaigner based in India brief on the way forward in addressing climate change [54 minutes]
• 30 May 2007: Mr. Michael Oppenheimer, lead author of the 4^th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to brief on the upcoming 60^th DPI/NGO Conference entitled "Climate Change: How it impacts us all" [34 minutes]
• 24 May 2007: Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to brief on the current state of climate change negotiations and the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia [34 minutes]
• 22 May 2007: John Scott of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and indigenous representatives from Canada, India, Norway and the United States to brief on the indigenous peoples' vulnerability to climate change [52 minutes]
• 22 May 2007: Charles McNeill, Environment Team Manager of the Environment and Energy Group, UNDP and John Scott, Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, to present the Equator Prize and brief on the importance of biodiversity in diminishing poverty and responding to climate change [34 minutes]
• 10 May 2007: Mr. Stavros Dimas, Environment Commissioner for the European Union, and Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Environment Minister of Germany, to brief on the EU's policies on global climate challenges [43 minutes]
• 9 May 2007: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of the Secretary-General's new Special Envoys on Climate Change and former Prime Minister of Norway, and Mr. Erik Solheim, Minister of International Development of Norway, to brief on the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 15^th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development [22 minutes]
• 8 May 2007: Secretary-General's new Special Envoys for Climate Change, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, H.E Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former President of Chile and H.E. Han Seung-soo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea to brief journalists [27 minutes]
• 17 April 2007: H.E. Angus Friday, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN briefs journalists on global warming on behalf of the New Bureau of the Alliance of Small Island States [29 minutes]
• 27 February 2007: Confronting Climate Change — Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable - a report of the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, prepared as input for the 15^th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Speakers include Senator Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation; Dr. Peter Raven, Chair, Sigma Xi; Dr. John Holdren, Harvard University; Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, University of Michigan; and other scientific leaders [46 minutes]
• 16 January 2007: Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Climate Change, briefs on climate change [43 minutes]

Media Stakeouts

• 24 September 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the Secretary-General of United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon on High-Level Event on Climate Change [5 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the President of Chile, H.E. Ms. Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria on High-Level Event on Climate Change [9 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the President of Spain, H.E. Mr. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on High-Level Event on Climate Change [13 minutes]
• 24 September 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the President of France, H.E. Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy on High-Level Event on Climate Change [14 minutes]
• 27 April 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon and the President of the European Commission, H.E. Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso on climate change and other matters [9 minutes]
• 17 April 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, H.E. Ms. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, on climate change [4 minutes]
• 17 April 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the Acting Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff, on climate change [5 minutes]
• 17 April 2007: Informal comments to the Media by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, H.E. Ms. Margaret Mary Beckett, on climate change [3 minutes]

Conferences

• 24 September 2007: High-Level Event — "The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change"
• 5-7 September 2007: 60^th Annual DPI/NGO Conference "Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All"
• 31 July-1 August 2007: General Assembly Informal Thematic Debate "Climate Change as a Global Challenge"
• 30 April-11 May 2007: Commission on Sustainable Development (15^th Session)
• 6-17 November 2006: United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
• 1-12 May 2006: Commission on Sustainable Development (14^th Session)

Special Events

• 7 June 2007: DPI/NGOs Briefing on Climate Change [1 hour and 54 minutes]
• 1 June 2007: Students will observe World Environment Day, with the climate change-related theme of "Melting Ice: A Hot Topic" [2 hours and 3 minutes]
• 1 March 2007: NGO Briefing - From Climate Change to Climate Security [1 hour and 41 minutes]

Other Webcasts and Videos

• B-Roll
  • 22 September 2007: Climate Change [20 minutes]
• Security Council Meeting
  • 17 April 2007: In connection with the relationship between energy, security and climate — Letter dated 5 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2007/186) [PDF]: Morning session [2 hours and 59 minutes], and afternoon session 3 hours and 17 minutes]
• UN World Chronicle
  • 24 November 2004: Mr. Mohammad Reza Salamat: UN Advisor on Climate Change (#959) [28 minutes]

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