The UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, 23 September, will be preceded by: a Youth Climate Summit on Saturday, 21 September; parallel Summit events on 21 and 22 September, during which the nine multi-stakeholder coalitions will present their work; and a meeting in the afternoon of 22 September for the coalitions to present to the Secretary-General a synthesis of their work. During the Climate Action Summit, Heads of State or Government will present ambitious and concrete national commitments, and relevant coalitions will showcase “initiatives that demonstrate major shifts towards carbon neutrality by 2050 in the economy or provide credible solutions to lower the financial and social costs of transition in support of enhanced actions by countries”.

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