Conference invitation-- Climate Change:What the Americas Can and Must Do Friday, May 13, 2011 10:00 am - 11:00 am Organization of American States Hall of the Americas 17th Street and Constitution Ave. NW Washington, DC 20006
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Appointed to the UN Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 17 May 2010, Ms. Figueres has been involved in climate change negotiations since 1995. She was a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team and represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, before being elected Vice President of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties 2008-2009. Conference will be webcast at: http://www.oas.org/es/centro_noticias/webcast_agenda.asp. To register please send an e-mail to [email protected] About the OAS The Organization of American States is the worlds oldest regional organization, dating back to the First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C., from October 1889 to April 1890. That meeting approved the establishment of the International Union of American Republics, and the stage was set for the weaving of a web of provisions and institutions that came to be known as the inter-American system, the oldest international institutional system. * Headsets are available in the rear of the Hall of the Americas for simultaneous interpretation into English and Spanish. Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20006
