Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan is scheduled to attend the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, Turkey.
The COP summit is an international forum that brings together representatives of member states to discuss global strategies for mitigating climate change and implementing international environmental agreements.
The annual conferences trace their origins to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which established the UNFCCC framework and paved the way for the inaugural COP meeting in Berlin, Germany, in 1995.
State House Director of Presidential Communications Bakari Machumu confirmed the President’s participation in an official statement issued on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
According to the statement, President Hassan is scheduled to depart for Antalya on Tuesday.
‘During her visit, she will address the summit of heads of state and government and lead discussions at a high-level panel focusing on accelerating the transition to clean cooking energy across Africa,’ reads part of the statement.
President Hassan is also scheduled to hold bilateral talks with her Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of the summit, which will focus on accelerating greenhouse gas emission reductions and addressing the severe impacts of climate change.