Leadership Plenary

Join us for the leadership plenary entitled "Hope, Humanity and Progress". Bringing together leading climate figures to examine urgent challenges and advance coordinated solutions. Through engaging dialogue and discussion you will hear from local climate leaders in their community, leaders of the major climate funds, climate envoys, humanitarian leaders and private sector innovators. Together, we will explore how local solutions can be scaled to support communities build resilience and advance collective leadership on climate action.

Murat Kurum

COP31 President-Designate, Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change

Jagan Chapagain

Secretary General

Mafalda Duarte

Executive director of the Green Climate Fund

Ibrahima Cheikh Diong

Executive Director

Benoît Faraco

Ambassador in charge of climate negotiations, decarbonised energies, and disaster risk prevention

Vanessa Nakate

Climate Justice and Environmental Activist

Juliet Rothenberg

Product Director, Climate, Earth & Crisis Resilience AI

Ahmed Shabin

Secretary General

Nimo Hassan

Director

Ambassador Ali Daud Mohamed

Climate Change Envoy

Marta Neves

International Operations and Projects Manager in Disaster Department / Climate Action Focal Point

Maeve Campbell

Climate Journalist