Great Decisions: International Cooperation on Climate Change

This free event is being held in-person and is open to everyone. An optional dinner will start at 7:15 following the presentation. The dinner is $25 for Woman’s Club members and $30 for non-members (plus service fee and taxes).

The 2015 Paris Agreement established a U.N.-sponsored framework for negotiations on climate change and global warming. In subsequent meetings, experts and political leaders have come together seeking common cause for this growing global crisis. What is the future of these efforts, and what have they yielded?

This program is presented by the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis through a partnership with Global Minnesota.

The Great Decisions program addresses some of the most critical foreign policy issues facing the United States each year. Global Minnesota facilitates the statewide Great Decisions program by providing access to a roster of local foreign policy experts and to discussion materials produced by the Foreign Policy Association. Great Decisions books contain articles and materials authored by experts on each topic to provide a nonpartisan basis for understanding the important global issues of our time. A limited number of discounted books are available for purchase by Global Minnesota members and groups ordering ten or more books. 

Todd Lefko, presenter

Todd is Chairperson of East-West Connections, an international non-profit focused on citizen diplomacy, and has taught over 4,400 students at the University of Minnesota and other Minnesota colleges. He has lectured at universities in Russia, Germany, China, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. He holds a BA in History, an MA in Public Administration and the coursework for a Ph. D in Urban History from the University of Minnesota.

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