Turkey will host next year’s UN climate summit, while Australia will lead government-to-government conference negotiations under a compromise agreement that three sources familiar with the matter said was taking shape in negotiations.
Australia and Turkey have put forward proposals in 2022 to host the annual COP, or Conference of the Parties, the world’s main forum for promoting climate action.
The two nations are in a protracted host fight, with neither willing to back down.
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The compromise would give Turkey the presidency of the summit and would include holding a pre-COP event in the Pacific, the sources said, adding that negotiations taking place at COP30 in Brazil have not yet been officially concluded.
News of the deal was first reported by Bloomberg.
A spokesperson for Australia’s COP 30 delegation declined to comment. Neither the Australian government nor the Turkish government immediately responded to requests for comment.
