Andorran PM Xavier Espot to Join Paris Peace Forum Climate Panel

Andorran Prime Minister Xavier Espot will take part in the Paris Peace Forum on Tuesday, 10 November, joining a roundtable on the role of international cooperation in tackling climate change.

Espot is scheduled to speak during the afternoon session at the Palau de Chaillot in Paris, in a discussion titled "Faced with the climate emergency: what can cooperation achieve?" The debate will focus on how collaboration between countries can accelerate the response to the effects of climate change.

The panel will be moderated by Minh-Thu Pham, a researcher and expert in global policy. Joining Espot are María Fernanda Espinosa, Ecuador's former foreign minister, and Abhijit Banerjee, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

This year's edition of the Paris Peace Forum is being held under the theme "From sovereignty to cooperation." Its agenda covers climate action, digital transformation, child protection, efforts to reduce inequality, and responses to health crises. The full programme is available on the forum's website.

Founded in 2018, the forum aims to strengthen multilateralism and promote better global governance through cross-border cooperation and joint approaches to shared challenges. It brings together heads of state and government, representatives of international organisations, businesses, NGOs and civil society.