The United States has formally withdrawn from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations process for countries to negotiate an agreement on how to address climate change. 

What happens now? 

Stanford’s delegates to the last major UNFCCC conference of parties (COP30) in Belém, will reflect on that question and options for progress on climate change that build on or are independent of the UNFCCC in a webinar discussion with Sue Biniaz, who led the U.S. climate negotiations team as a deputy to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.  As deputy legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, Biniaz served as lead climate lawyer and a climate negotiator for the U.S. government from 1989 to 2017. Woods Institute Director and climate expert Chris Field, who attended COP30 and many of its predecessors, will moderate the discussion.
 
For more information, contact: woods-events@stanford.edu
 
Speakers:
Sue Biniaz, Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Mengye Zhu, Senior Scientist, Natural Capital Alliance, Stanford University
June Choi, Ph.D. student in Earth System Science, Stanford University
Rebecca Grekin, Ph.D. student in Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Moderated by Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment