Opening of the Fifty-ninth Session of the IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be electing its new Bureau and the Bureau of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories during its 59^th Session to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting is scheduled from 25 to 28 July 2023. It is hosted by the UN Environment Programme and the Kenyan government.

This page will be updated with opening remarks and other media assets from the opening ceremony.

Opening Ceremony

The recording of the opening can be downloaded here.

Photos from the opening are here.

B-roll can be downloaded here.

The 59^th Session was opened on 25 July by:

the current IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee [ Opening remarks ]
the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Inger Andersen [Remarks]
the Cabinet Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Soipan Tuya [Remarks]
the Director of Cabinet, World Meteorological Organization Paul Egerton via video message [Text]

Opening of the Fifty-ninth Session of the IPCC

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