Opening of the Sixty-second Session of the IPCC

The opening session will take place on Monday, 24 February 2025, at 9.00 am local time at InterContinental Hangzhou. Delegates will be addressed by:

• Jim Skea, IPCC Chair
• Liu Zhenmin, China’s Special Envoy for Climate Change
• Chen Zhenlin, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration
• A representative from China’s Zhejiang Province
• Ko Barrett, Deputy Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization
• Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
• Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

IPCC Secretary, Abdalah Mokssit will moderate the session.