Junior Diplomat Initiative warmly welcomes you to the two-day conference: "Diplomacy and Climate Action - Towards a Sustainable Future" on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 March at Sciences Po Paris.

Please find the conference agenda below:

Friday 10 March

Location: Amphithéâtre Leroy Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint Guillaume

18:00-18:10 Doors Open

18:10-18:30 Opening Ceremony

18:30-20:00 Panel 1: European Climate Diplomacy

Saturday 11 March

Location: Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l'Université

11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Climate Migration: Challenges and Action

12:45-14:15 Panel 3: Geopolitics of the Energy Transition

15:00-16:30 Panel 4: Climate Impacts on Peace and Security

16:30-17:00 Closing Ceremony

Confirmed speakers and moderators for the discussions are the following:

Opening Ceremony: Josep Borrell Fontelles  (EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice-President of the European Commission).

Panel 1: Jacob Werksman (Principal Advisor to DG Climate, European Commission), Grégoire Chauvière Le Drian (Head of European Investment Bank Office in France) and Pierre Leturcq (Director of Studies, Europe Jacques Delors). Moderator: Charlotte Hourdin (Sciences Po student in Environmental Policy).

Panel 2: Sophie Pouget (Executive Director, Fondation RAJA-Danièle Marcovici and Judge, UNHCR), Yayoi Segi-Vltchek (Chief of Section of Migration, Displacement, Emergencies and Education, UNESCO) and Johanna Riege (Sciences Po student in Environmental Policy). Moderator: Kata Egyed (Sciences Po student in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action).

Panel 3: Mary Burce Warlick (Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency), Mechthild Wörsdörfer (Deputy Director-General of the DG Energy, European Commission), Giacomo Luciani (Scientific Director, Master in International Energy, Sciences Po). Moderator: Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Director, EU Programme, Institute for Climate Economics).

Panel 4: Nicolas Regaud (Senior Adviser for Climate to the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, French Ministry of Armed Forces), Léna Salamé (Lawyer specialized in Conflict Mitigation, Independent) and Léopold Ghins (Policy Analyst, Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD). Moderator: Samuel Toppo (Peace and Security Intern, UNSSC).

Closing ceremony: Yamina Saheb (Lead Author, IPPC report and Senior Fellow, OpenExp).

You can sign up for the conference via this form. Please make sure to sign up only for the day(s) you are able to attend and let us know by email as soon as possible if you have the cancel your participation. Places are limited, and we hope to fill all of them.

For any further questions, please contact: jdifr.communications@gmail.com.