Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Rome and Glasgow from 29th of this month to 2nd November to attend the 16th G-20 Summit and the World Leaders’ Summit of COP-26

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Rome and Glasgow from 29th of this month to 2nd November to attend the 16th G-20 Summit and the World Leaders’ Summit of COP-26.

Mr Modi will participate in the 16th G-20 Summit in Rome from 30th and 31st October at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi. The Summit will also be attended by Heads of State and Heads of Government of G-20 Member Countries, the European Union and other invited countries and International Organizations.

This will be the 8th G-20 Summit that Prime Minister would be attending. The G-20 has emerged as the premier global forum for international economic cooperation. India is scheduled to host the G-20 Summit in 2023 for the first time.

The forthcoming Summit under the Italian Presidency is centred around the theme ‘People, Planet, Prosperity’, focussing on the areas of Recovery from the Pandemic and Strengthening of Global Health Governance, Economic Recovery and Resilience, Climate Change and Energy Transition and Sustainable Development and Food Security.

The Prime Minister will also hold several bilateral meetings, including with the Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi.

Mr Modi will thereafter travel to Glasgow to attend the World Leader’s Summit of the 26th Conference of Parties COP-26 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson. COP-26 is being held from 31st October to 12th November this year under the Presidency of the UK partnering with Italy.

The high-level segment of COP-26, titled the World Leaders’ Summit will be held on 1st and 2nd November 2021. The Summit will be attended by Heads of State and Heads of Government of more than 120 countries. COP-26 was originally slated to be held in 2020, but was deferred to 2021 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The UNFCCC embodies the global will and vision to combat climate change. The periodic Conference of Parties to this Convention have emerged as global climate summits, providing an opportunity for stocktaking and for charting the way forward.

Prime Minister last attended the COP-21 in Paris in 2015, when the Paris Agreement was concluded, and whose implementation commences this year. At COP-26, the Parties will work to achieve the completion of Paris Agreement implementation guidelines; the mobilization of climate finance; actions to strengthen climate adaptation, technology development and transfer; and keeping in reach the Paris Agreement goals of limiting the rise in global temperatures.

The Prime Minister will hold numerous bilateral meetings on the sidelines of COP-26 including with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.