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In mid-November 2026, the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will gather in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for COP31. Turkey will host the conference, while Australia will chair the negotiations.

In the run-up to the conference, the host has defined several key topics, including increasing the global electrification rate and reducing global waste growth. However, these and other goals of the COP31 Action Agenda are not part of the official negotiations. Rather, they are intended to highlight concrete options for action. The COP31 Presidency hopes that this will help accelerate the implementation of existing commitments. In the negotiations themselves, the Parties face the daunting task of further fleshing out the results from previous rounds of negotiations.

In addition to accounting issues related to the New Collective Climate Finance Goal (NCQG) and the further development of indicators for the Global Climate Adaptation Goal, the roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels is a particular focus here. Since the countries were unable to agree on such a phase-out plan at the climate conference in Belém, the first international conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF) was held in Santa Marta, Colombia, in April 2026. COP31 will reveal the extent to which this voluntary process, which operates outside the UN framework, can inject new momentum into the UN negotiations and lead to the presentation of a concrete phase-out plan. Furthermore, the Just Transition Mechanism is yet to be operationalised. The Parties still need to agree on key details, including its thematic scope and institutional framework, among other things.

The negotiations are taking place against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis of multilateralism. The expected overshoot of the 1.5-degree target, along with the devastating consequences of climate change, are simultaneously increasing the pressure on delegates to take action.

The Wuppertal Institute has been observing the UN climate process from the beginning and will publish an assessment soon after the conference. At each conference, the Institute presents its research at side events and discusses effective ways of implementing the Paris Agreement.

The Wuppertal Institute publishes an analytical report after each COP. The reports published since 2001 can be downloaded below.

Further publications by the Wuppertal Institute on current international climate policy issues can be found on the global climate governance page.