From unprecedented rains and floods stretching from the Middle East to China, destructive heat waves across southern Asia, wildfires across Western countries, the planet is angry and demanding immediate attention. While the climate crisis is creating fallouts across multiple areas, its impact on peace and security, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected geographies remains a grey area. How is climate going to impact political stability? Are we too late to address this slide into crisis? What can current global governance mechanisms do to ease climate-driven political fallouts? Are institutions such as COP29 nimble enough to keep up with the faultlines the climate crisis is creating? 

Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Minister of State for External Affairs, India
Dmitry Maryasin, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Joshua Wycliffe, Chief of Operations, International Solar Alliance, India 
Fabrice Balanche, Associate Professor & Research Director, University of Lyon 2, France
Victoria Panova, Head of BRICS Expert Council; Vice Rector, HSE University; W20 Russian Sherpa, Russian Federation

Moderator:  

Shailly Kedia, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, The Energy and Resources Institute, India