Heinrich Böll Stiftung at COP31 Antalya
This November, the world's climate negotiations arrive in Antalya. Turkey will host COP31 under an unprecedented shared presidency: Turkey holds the Presidency, Australia leads the negotiations, and the Pacific hosts the pre-COP. The summit comes at a difficult moment. Multilateralism is weakening. COP30 in Belém closed without a fossil-fuel phase-out and with a finance deal that fell short for the Global South. Yet in April 2026, willing states met in Santa Marta, Colombia, to plan a just and financed exit from oil, gas and coal. Can that momentum reach Antalya?
COP31 is billed as the "implementation COP": the first test of the Global Stocktake, of new national climate plans, and of the just-transition framework to be adopted here. Turkey's Action Agenda is led by a 35%-by-2035 electrification target. But scaling clean energy is not the same as planning the decline of fossil fuels. Will this transition reduce inequalities, or deepen and reproduce them? And will emissions actually fall?
Drought, water scarcity and pollution are making adaptation as urgent as mitigation. The host country's own climate governance will also be under the international spotlight throughout this process.
Over the coming year, we will bring the COP31 agenda, the Peoples' Climate Summit alongside it, and the wider climate debate to this page through articles, webinars and publications.
