The Dublin Climate Dialogues were chaired by Pat Cox, the former President of the European Parliament the line-up of speakers included John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK Committee on Climate Change, Mary Robinson, Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Elders, Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Philip Lane, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and Member of the ECBs executive board, Mike Hayes, Global Lead Renewables and Decarbonisation, KPMG, Professor Sir Jim McDonald, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering as well as Ireland’s Foreign, Finance and Energy and Climate Ministers.
The organisers issued a Declaration following the event that represents “a distillation of the collective wisdom that emerged”. The Declaration is intended as “an input to the wider debate in the runup to COP 26 in November 2021”. The Declaration may be viewed here.