Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has left for the USA where she will take part in the UN climate summit on Monday and give a speech at the high level general debate at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. She will meet the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres who has summoned the top authorities to challenge citizens from individual countries to be more active in "energy transition, climate finance and carbon pricing, industry transition, nature-based solutions, cities and local action, and resilience". Slovakia will also be represented by the Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák and the Environment Minister László Sólymos. Prior to that, the President will be present at the Globsec event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the end of the totalitarian regime in Central and Eastern Europe. On Sunday, Čaputová will meet Slovak ex-pats at the 42nd Slovak Heritage Festival in New Jersey.
Meanwhile on Friday, thousands of Slovak students, their teachers and parents joined the Global Climate Protest organized also in the Slovak towns of Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Žilina and Košice. The Fridays for Future Slovakia initiative has stipulated 10 points for a better future in co-operation with other subjects gathered in the so called Climate coalition. They are requesting, among other matters, for the Slovak Republic not to finance the development and mining of fossil fuels, for 10% of the Slovak territory to be part of strict so called non-interference zones and zones with the highest level of protection and for Slovak agriculture to change to ecological forms of production. The global climate strike was also supported by Slovak politicians, scientific and cultural institutions.
