Book Chat: Landing the Paris Climate Agreement with Todd Stern

Please join C2ES the evening of Monday, December 2 for a discussion of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How it Happened, Why it Matters, and What Comes Next. Center for Climate and Energy Solutions President Nat Keohane will join author Todd Stern to discuss his new book, the state of Paris Agreement, and his expectations for U.S. and global ambition to reverse course and drive down global emissions to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees C goal.

Landing the Paris Agreement

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change was one of the most difficult and hopeful achievements of the twenty first century: 195 nations finally agreed, after 20 years of trying, to establish an ambitious, operational regime to address one of the greatest civilizational challenges of our time.

In Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, Todd Stern, the chief US negotiator on climate change, provides an engaging account from inside the rooms where it happened: the full, charged, seven year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret U.S. China climate deal in 2014, to Paris itself.

About Todd Stern

With a storyteller's gift for character, suspense, and detail, Stern crafts a high-stakes narrative that illuminates the strategy, policy, politics, and diplomacy that made Paris possible.

Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a nonresident 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.

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