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COP31 climate talks in Antalya

The UN climate conference in Antalya runs to Nov 20, with Turkiye presiding and Australia chairing the negotiations. At the leaders' summit, which opened Nov 11 without the leaders of the US, China, India or France, Guterres called for a climate justice pact.

Confidence: high. Dates, the Turkiye-Australia split, the agenda and the US absence are confirmed by the UN, the host government and many outlets. What the talks will deliver, and how strong any electrification or fossil-fuel language will be, is still being negotiated, and attendance figures come from the host. · Updated 11 Nov 2026, 2pm ET

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Why it matters: Emerging and developing economies outside China, home to nearly two-thirds of the world's people, received only 18% of global clean-energy investment in 2025, the funding gap at the heart of the COP31 finance fight. source

What's happening

COP31 is the 31st annual UN climate conference, gathering representatives of more than 190 countries in Antalya, Turkiye, from 9 to 20 November 2026. Under an unusual compromise, Turkiye hosts and holds the presidency, led by environment minister Murat Kurum, while Australia's climate minister Chris Bowen runs the negotiations. The talks open as UN bodies say the world is on course to overshoot the Paris Agreement's 1.5C limit; UNEP's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, as cited by Anadolu, puts warming at about 2.6C this century even if current pledges are met. The main disputes are over money and fossil fuels. Developing countries want a clear path to the $300bn-a-year finance goal agreed at COP29 and more support for adaptation, while a move away from fossil fuels is not on the formal agenda after COP30 ended without agreement on it. The hosts are promoting a voluntary target for electricity to supply 35% of world energy demand by 2035. The United States is sending no official delegation after leaving the Paris Agreement.

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Key figures

91 (with delegations from 196 countries)Heads of state and government confirmed for COP31Murat Kurum, Turkiye's environment minister and COP31 president · 2026-11-06 · source
$300bn a year by 2035, within a wider $1.3tn goalClimate finance developed countries agreed at COP29 to mobilise for developing nationsCOP29 decision, as reported by Euronews · 2026-11-09 · source
about 23% at end of 2024Electricity's share of world final energy consumption (hosts propose 35% by 2035)International Energy Agency, as reported by France 24 · 2024-12-31 · source

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