{"id":16641,"date":"2016-04-21T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=16641"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:00:35","slug":"media-advisory-press-briefing-on-civil-society-and-paris-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/04\/media-advisory-press-briefing-on-civil-society-and-paris-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Media advisory: Press briefing on civil society and Paris Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">On April 22, leaders from international civil society will join together alongside 170 countries to celebrate the historic signing of the Paris Agreement. At this press briefing, civil society leaders from a wide sector of stakeholders will react to the signing, report on what\u2019s been happening since December, and discuss steps forward for climate action. In the lead up to Paris, a number of different groups added their name to petitions demanding action to address the climate crisis; today that number continues to grow and we will reveal the current aggregated count during the briefing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> \u00a0Press conference at the UN Headquarters &amp; civil society petition reveal (visual\/photo opportunity)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator<strong>: \u00a0<\/strong>Tina Johnson, Policy Director, US Climate Action Network<\/li>\n<li>H.E. Secretary Emmanuel M. de Guzman, Vice-Chairperson, Climate Change Commission, Office of the President of the Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Wael Hmaidan, Executive Director, CAN International<\/li>\n<li>Heather Coleman, Manager, Climate Change Oxfam America<\/li>\n<li>Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHEN: <\/strong>Friday, April 22 at 11 a.m. ET in room S-237<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> This will be in Press Room S-237 at the UN Headquarters and live streamed at <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/\">http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong> Paige Knappenberger, <a href=\"mailto:pknappenberger@climatenexus.org\">pknappenberger@climatenexus.org<\/a>, (602) 549-0344 or Emma Stieglitz, <a href=\"mailto:estieglitz@climatenexus.org\">estieglitz@climatenexus.org<\/a>, (646) 559-8284<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSVP:<\/strong> We appreciate RSVPs to Paige Knappenberger at <a href=\"mailto:pknappenberger@climatenexus.org\">pknappenberger@climatenexus.org<\/a>, (602) 549-0344<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this press briefing, civil society leaders from a wide sector of stakeholders will react to the signing, report on what\u2019s been happening since December, and discuss steps forward for climate action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,5270],"tags":[3461,5671,144,5217,5780],"class_list":["post-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news","category-press-material","tag-civil-society","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-paris-agreement","tag-press-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}