Leaders to speak and then have a conversation with attendees at the UNFCCC Climate Conference today. Intimate setting. I’ve inquired about streaming video, and will post a link if available. Hosted by Ban Ki-moon, he brings in a dazzling set of guest speakers, including both Clintons, President Barack Obama, Helen Clark, and many others. See below for details. Reblog widely. I’ll update this post as the day progresses.

Advancing Public-Private Partnerships for REDD+ and Green Growth

  The Hotel Southern Sun Elangeni

63 Snell Parade, Durban, South Africa

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. 

Avoided Deforestation Partners and co-host Dr. Jane Goodall invite you to an afternoon of discussion dedicated to forest-climate protection, in tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, with:

His Excellency Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General of the United Nations

President Barack Obama – President of the United States (Special Video Message)

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE – Founder, Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace (host)

Hon. Helen Clark – Administrator, UNDP, and former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Hon. Mary Robinson – President of Mary Robinson Foundation, former President of Ireland

Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton – United States Secretary of State (Special Video Message)

Hon. William Clinton – Former President of the United States (Special Video Message)

Achim Steiner – UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary-General

Dr. Andrew Steer – World Bank, Special Envoy for Climate Change

Wanjira Maathai – The Green Belt Movement, (daughter of the late Wangari Maathai)

Hon. José Endundo Bononge – DRC, Minister of Environment

Hon. Tina Joemat-Pettersson – South Africa, Minister of Agriculture

Hon. Kjetil Lund – Norway, Ministry of Finance and Co-Chair, Green Climate Fund

Hon. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto - Indonesia, Head of the President’s Unit on REDD

Hon. Toga Gayewea McIntosh – Liberia, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Jonathan Pershing – United States, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change

Hon. Norbert Röttgen – Germany, Minister for Environment

Hon. Eric Solheim – Norway, Minister of the Environment

Dr. Jason Clay – World Wildlife Fund-US, Senior Vice President

Larry Schweiger – National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO

Peter Seligmann – Conservation International, CEO and Chairman

Sean de Cleene – Yara International, Vice President Global Business Initiatives

Puvan Selvanathan – Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Vice President, Executive Board

Update 1: My reading is the event was kept secret until Tuesday, Dec. 6 late afternoon

Update 2: As of Dec. 7, 1:30am, event has not been listed on the climate conference program @COP17