OSCE High-Level Conference on Climate Change to be held in Vienna on 7 July

VIENNA, 28 June 2023 – On 7 July 2023, OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will host the OSCE High-Level Conference on Climate Change in Vienna.  

The conference will bring together Ministers, Climate Envoys and other high-level political actors of the OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation along with representatives of international organizations and civil society, climate security experts and practitioners.

The High-Level Conference on Climate Change will provide an opportunity to explore prospects for further action on combatting climate-related security threats. Within this context, Secretary General Schmid will lay out the next steps for the OSCE’s action on climate change.

Interested media will have the opportunity to attend a doorstep between 09:15 to 10:00 to capture the arrival of high-level conference participants at the OSCE Congress Centre, Hofburg on 7 July.

Media representatives interested in attending the doorstep should send an e-mail to [email protected] no later than 17:00 on Thursday 6 July.  

The arrival of high-level participants (9:15), the opening (10:00) and closing (16:30) session of the conference, as well as the OSCE’s next steps on climate change action presented by the Secretary General (13:15), will be livestreamed on www.osce.org/live for media and the general public to follow remotely. All public and media information, including photography and videography, associated with the conference will be available on the event page https://www.osce.org/secretary-general/546052

Further information and the agenda are available here.