UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is convening a
Summit on Climate Change on 22 September 2009 to focus Heads of State and Government on the need for urgent action, and to mobilize the highest level political will needed to reach a fair, effective, and scientifically ambitious global climate deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
The Summit will focus on engaging leaders in an interactive dialogue on the crucial political issues for a post-2012 climate change regime, and over 90 member states will participate. UN has a total of 192 member states.
Speakers at the opening ceremony include: UN Secretary-General,
Ban Ki-moon; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman,
Rajendra Pachauri;
President Barack Obama, United States of America;
President Mohamed Nasheed, Republic of Maldives;
President Hu Jintao, China;
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Japan;
President Paul Kagame, Rwanda;
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden;
President Óscar Arias Sánchez, Costa Rica;
President Nicolas Sarkozy, France; Professor
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate and Founder of Green Belt Movement, Kenya; and Ms.
Yugratna Srivastava, Asia-Pacific UNEP/TUNZA Junior-Board representative, India.
The webcast will be available here from 9:00 am Eastern:
http://www.un.org/webcast/In addition, interactive discussion session on
collaboration for climate solutions will be held in the afternoon where participants will discuss actions toward climate change mitigation and adaptation, in one the following areas: food security, energy solutions, water security, sustainable enterprises and decent work, financing, disaster preparedness and risk reduction.
Whereas the Summit aims to advance the negotiations, it will not be a negotiating session itself. But it will seek to provide a forum where leaders can discuss fundamental issues, find common ground and provide guidance to their negotiators.
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