Conference will be held from 9 to 20 November 2026 in the resort of Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast
and finalized this Friday (21) their division of tasks for organizing the 31st United Nations conference on climate change () within a year, according to a document consulted by AFP. Australia will chair the negotiations. Now, the agreement must be ratified by all nations gathered in to a. This division of tasks is highly unusual, but it ends a dispute between both governments.
COP31 will be held from November 9 to 20, 2026 in Türkiye, in the resort of Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast. Australia will “chair the negotiations” and have a vice-president, while the formal title of COP31 president will be held by Turkey.
The Oceanian country will also organize the pre-COP conference, traditionally more technical than the COP, in the Pacific, a region that Canberra wanted to involve from the beginning to focus attention on island states threatened by rising sea levels.
Turkey ratified its membership of the Paris Climate Agreement at the end of 2021, but analysts are highly critical of its climate commitments.
The Middle Eastern country has committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2053, three years later than European countries, but its current road map is considered “critically insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker.
Turkey does not foresee a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions until 2035, only a slower growth in these emissions compared to the current trajectory.
Climate conferences are organized in turns between five regional blocs that must designate the host country by consensus among members. This has already provoked clashes, but rarely as intense as this one. The COP had already designated it as the venue for the 32nd conference in 2027.
*With information from AFP
Published by Nátaly Tenório
