The high-level segment of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (to 13 December) will take place Tuesday, 10 December and Wednesday, 11 December 2019.

Speaking at the opening of the high-level segment at 9:00 a.m. CET on 10 December will be COP25 President Carolina Schmidt, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, the Spanish musician, singer and composer Alejandro Sanz, the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Petteri Taalas, the President of the UN General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande and Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera.

In a video message ahead of Tuesday, Alejandro Sanz has called on world leaders and all people to act on climate change.

National statements from Heads of State and Government, statements on behalf of groups, ministers and heads of delegations will be delivered following the opening of the high-level segment.

The high-level segment will then continue on 11 December with remaining national statements from ministers and heads of delegations, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations.

The preliminary list of speakers for the high-level segment can be found here, along with the time-frames they will be speaking in.

All plenaries will be webcast live and on demand.

More information about key events on 11 December will follow.

About the UNFCCC

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

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