(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 31 - The annual UN climate conference, COP26, opened this morning at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. At the inaugural ceremony, the president of COP25 in Chile, Carolina Schmidt, handed over the deliveries to the president of COP26, the British Alok Sharma. Also present were Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, the UN Climate Convention that organizes COPs, Hoesung Lee, president of the UN Scientific Committee on Climate Change, the IPCC, and India Logan-Riley, representative of the indigenous peoples.
Today is expected in the early afternoon the release of a report on the state of the climate in the world of the International Meteorological Organization (Wmo).
The World Leaders Summit is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (Italy hosted the Pre-Cop26 in Milan in September), the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley (representing the countries that risk being submerged by the rise in mari), British documentarian David Attenborough (regular presence at any event in the UK related to climate and environment), United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and Prince Charles of Windsor (replacing Queen Elizabeth, to whom doctors have forbidden to participate for health reasons).
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