Foreign Minister Khanal Participates in COP31

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shishir Khanal, participated in the opening session of the plenary meeting of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which commenced in Antalya, Türkiye on Monday.

Minister Khanal is leading the Nepali delegation to the conference, which is being held from 9 to 20 November.

During the conference, Murat Kurum, Türkiye’s Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, assumed the presidency of COP31, while Chris Bowen, Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, assumed the chairmanship of the conference’s negotiation process.

Minister Khanal is also scheduled to address the COP31 plenary session later during the conference.