May 10, 2023 10:00 AM—11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4) Live Online. Can humanity compete in the critical race against climate change, or are we destined to succumb to a world of extreme heat, flooding, drought, and irrevocable damage to the planet’s seas and biosphere?

Six months after they first convened in October 2022, the 32 governments and civil society organizations in 22 countries selected for the first cohort of our Climate Democracy Action (CDA) accelerator have “graduated”! In a webinar in March, they celebrated the completion of phase 1 of their journey toward a just climate transition — the development of concrete action plans.

Major Groups and other stakeholders have submitted position papers on the theme of the July 2023 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), ‘Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels.’

Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, Indigenous leaders and politicians from Commonwealth countries including Australia have called for the British monarch to formally apologise for the ongoing effects of colonisation.