High-Level Segment Opens at UN Climate Change Conference in Doha
The two-week UN Climate Change Conference (COP 18/CMP 8) opened its high-level segment today in Doha, Qatar.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre right) is pictured on the opening day with (seated foreground, from left) Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of Kuwait; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Amir of Qatar; Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned of Qatar; Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Conference; and Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).