The Secretary-General is hosting the Climate Summit to engage leaders and advance climate action and ambition. The Summit will serve as a public platform for leaders at the highest level – all UN Member States, as well as finance, business, civil society and local leaders from public and private sectors – to catalyze ambitious action on the ground to reduce emissions and strengthen climate resilience and mobilize political will for an ambitious global legal agreement by 2015 that limits the world to a less than 2-degree Celsius rise in global temperature.
The Climate Summit will be focused on actions and solutions by both national governments and groups of governments working together with a variety of actors from the private sector and civil society to accelerate progress in areas that go far to reduce emissions and strengthen resilience – in areas such as energy; short-lived climate pollutants; cities and transportation; sustainable agriculture and forestry; adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and climate finance and the economic drivers.
Programme
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| 08.30 – 10.00 | Opening Plenary (General Assembly Hall) Remarks by the United Nations Secretary-General Film and presentations from civil society Remarks by selected Heads of State and Government and invited guest speakers |
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| 10.15 – 13.15 | Plenary for Heads of state and Government in three parallel sessions | ||
| 13.30 – 15.15 | Private Sector Forum High-level Luncheon for Heads of State and Government,Chief Executive Officers of the private sector and leaders of civil society hosted by the UN Secretary-General and organized by Global Compact |
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| 15.30 – 18.00 | Multilateral and Multi-stakeholder Action Announcements Announcements by multilateral and multi-stakeholder coalitions on:
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| 15.30 – 18.00 | Thematic Sessions Four, high-level policy and practice dialogues on:
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