Climate Events

The Madrid Climate Change Conference brings the world together to consider ways to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The Conference comes at a time when new data shows the climate emergency is getting worse every day and is impacting people’s lives everywhere, whether from extreme heat, air pollution, wildfires, intensified flooding or droughts.

The central purpose of the 2019 Climate Action Summit, hosted by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, is to boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement, and to showcase countries’ concrete and realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020 and to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

The UN’s Youth Climate Summit is a platform for young climate action leaders from more than 140 countries and territories to showcase their solutions at the United Nations and to meaningfully engage with decision-makers on the defining issue of our time.

Seizing the opportunity of the climate action momentum, the Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2019 will boost the region’s response to the current climate emergency, with discussions on energy transition, industry transition, infrastructure, cities and local action, resilience and adaptation, and nature-based solutions.

The Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2019, hosted by Brazil, will demonstrate increasing climate ambition across the region, from technical discussions to thematic dialogues. The results of the event will feed into the outcome of the Climate Action Summit organized by the UN Secretary-General on 23 September in New York.

The central purpose of the Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting is to take stock of progress so far across all the Action Areas of the Climate Action Summit, and identify and develop proposals, based on the criteria established for initiatives to be considered for announcement at the Summit.

The Climate and SDGs Synergy Conference (Copenhagen, April 1-3), organized by UN DESA, UNFCCC and the Government of Denmark, will strengthen the link between the global climate agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, identifying key areas to mobilize action, resources and investment to better serve the implementation of both frameworks and leave no one behind.

Regional Climate Weeks aim at providing space for a grassroots exchange of knowledge and best practices across three regions: Africa, Latin-America and Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. In 2019, the initiative will focus on Nationally Determined Contribution implementation, the Sustainable Development Goals, and Global Climate Action.

COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Climate Week NYC is the time and place where the world gathers together to showcase amazing climate action and discusses how to do more.

More than 100 heads of state and government will be attending the UN General Assembly. Climate change will be a major focus attention. Climate Week will take place during the week of 24-30 September, feature close to 150 events on climate change.

The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action.