The Greek candidacy for the UN Security Council for the biennium 2025/26 has set out six priorities. Below you will find some interesting facts related to each of these priorities. These facts highlight the pressing nature of global challenges such...
climate change
Hellenic Foreign Ministry & Swiss Embassy in Athens host event on “Climate Change & Security”
Being a contracting party to all major international environmental conventions, treaties and protocols, Greece has set the climate, peace and security nexus as a priority of its candidacy for its election as non-permanent member of the UN Security...
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses COP28
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis addresses the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, held in Dubai and highlights Greece’s best practices towards a brave and ‘adapted’ new world. “The evidence of the climate crisis has never been clearer. Equally,...
Greece present at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28)
As a candidate country for the United Nations Security Council term for 2025/26, Greece attributes great importance to tackling the impact of climate change and reaffirms its unwavering support towards the adoption of policies, either national or...
On the Threats of Sea-Level Rise
Greece addresses the Informal Plenary Meeting of the UNGA on the existential threats emanating from sea-level rise as a result of the climate crisis, in New York. Addressing the works of the Meeting, the Head of the Hellenic Republic Mission to the...