Climate change is expected to be a big part of Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne’s agenda going forward, as evidenced by his participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November.
Mayor Justin Bibb and Michael Jeans, president and CEO of Growth Opportunity Partners; Baiju Shah, president and CEO of Greater Cleveland Partnership; Chris Ronayne, Cuyahoga County executive-elect at the time; and Ronn Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation participate in a session during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt last November.
But John Mitterholzer, program director for climate and environmental justice at the Gund Foundation, said national governments aren’t doing enough to slow the rise in average temperature around the world, and that the burden of combating climate change is largely falling on local officials. He said he sees the region as a potential refuge for people and businesses from around the world that may be looking to relocate in the face of climate change.There have now been 27 annual gatherings of the organization known formally as the Council of Parties Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2015 meeting resulted in the Paris Climate Accords, an agreement among countries to try and limit the increase in global average temperatures to 1.
The Cleveland and Gund foundations paid for all the participants to attend, except Shah, whose business expenses were coverd by the partnership. John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, led the U.S. delegation while President Joe Biden showed up for a day with other world leaders.
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