COP31 Leaders Summit begins

The Leaders Summit will be held today, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Antalya.

According to the written statement made by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the summit held at the COP31 Area in Antalya on November 9-20 brings together 196 countries that are parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the European Union.

The COP31 Leaders Summit, the most important event of COP31, will be held today, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in the largest general assembly hall in Anatolia, in the Blue Zone of the COP31 Area in Antalya.

95 countries and 102 leaders from 6 continents are expected to attend the summit.

In the program, President Erdoğan, COP31 President and Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum, as well as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the President of Brazil, which hosts COP30, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, will make speeches.

President Erdoğan will explain Türkiye's climate vision at the opening.

THE THEME OF THE FIRST DAY AT THE SUMMIT IS "ZERO ATTACK"

In the program, videos and special clips prepared by Türkiye for COP31 will be shown. Fire of Anatolia team will present a show combining folk dances from 7 geographical regions of Türkiye in a single choreography.

The show, which aims to introduce the cultural diversity of Anatolia to world leaders with the message of "diversity in unity", will open with dances from the Teke region of the Mediterranean Region, where Antalya is the host, and will close with all regions meeting in halay.

The official song of COP31, "Let's Cop", will be played during the ceremony, which will tell about the first day theme of the Leaders' Summit, "Zero Waste".

Among those expected to attend the summit at the leader level are Austria, the United Kingdom, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Finland, Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Ukraine, Botswana, Burundi, Algeria, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, China, Indonesia, Armenia, Palestine, South Korea, Georgia, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government, Iran, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Australia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu.