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COP31 UN Climate Change Conference

Name: COP31 UN Climate Change Conference
Start: 2026-11-09
Location: Turkey

Monday, November 9, 2026 · 4 days away

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Event overview

COP31 in Antalya, Turkey (Nov 9–20, 2026) with Australia leading negotiations; first MENA-region COP since UAE 2023.

Date: 2026-11-09
Country / jurisdiction: Turkey
Region: Europe
Category: Political
Status: scheduled

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Why this date is being tracked

COP31 is the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scheduled November 9-20, 2026 at the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya, Türkiye. Türkiye hosts under a cost-sharing arrangement with Australia that resolved a competing bid; Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen will preside over the negotiations. The World Leaders' Summit, traditionally held on days 1-2 of COP, is scheduled for November 11-12 (days 3-4) — a departure from previous summits. COP31 follows COP30 in Belém, Brazil (November 2025) and is the first COP held on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast. Pre-COP consultations are scheduled for Fiji October 5-8, 2026 with a leaders' event in Tuvalu, signaling continued Pacific climate-vulnerability focus.

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unfccc.int

Last reviewed

2026-04-30

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What this countdown tracks

The 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31), scheduled for Monday 9 November to Friday 20 November 2026 in Antalya, Türkiye. The conference convenes the 198 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) and to the Paris Agreement (CMA), and the subsidiary bodies SBSTA and SBI in their second sessions of the year.

About this summit

COP31 follows COP30 in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025 — the first Amazon-hosted COP — and continues the negotiations under the Paris Agreement's "ratchet mechanism" of progressively stronger Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The Antalya talks are co-led by Türkiye as the host and Australia as the negotiations chair, an unusual arrangement agreed at COP29 in Baku to break the 18-month standstill over a Western European and Others Group (WEOG) host. Türkiye chairs the formal Presidency; Australia leads negotiation tracks under the COP31 troika that also includes Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.

The 2025 NDC submissions covering 2031–2035 are due before COP31 and form the conference's central deliverable. Negotiators are expected to agree the next iteration of the Global Stocktake response, finalise rules for Article 6.4 carbon markets, advance the operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fund agreed at COP27 and seeded at COP28, and resolve outstanding adaptation-finance questions including the Global Goal on Adaptation indicators. Antalya is also the first COP since the United States' January 2025 withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the Trump administration's executive order, which takes formal effect 27 January 2026 — meaning the US attends as an observer rather than a Party.

Key issues

The negotiations to watch are the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance — agreed at COP29 at "at least USD 300 billion per year by 2035" with a "Roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion" — and the implementation pathway for that Roadmap. The Loss and Damage Fund, hosted by the World Bank for an interim period, is expected to deliver its first major disbursements in 2026. Article 6.4 mechanism authorisations and transitions from CDM credits will be a litmus test for market integrity. Türkiye's Presidency is also expected to push transboundary water diplomacy and a forest-and-Mediterranean agenda that complements Brazil's COP30 outputs.

Past COPs

COP30 — Belém, Brazil (Nov 2025). First Amazon-hosted COP; mutirão for global stocktake response.
COP29 — Baku, Azerbaijan (Nov 2024). NCQG of USD 300 billion / Roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion.
COP28 — Dubai, UAE (Nov–Dec 2023). First Global Stocktake; Loss and Damage Fund operationalised.
COP27 — Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (Nov 2022). Loss and Damage Fund agreed in principle.
COP26 — Glasgow, UK (Oct–Nov 2021). Glasgow Climate Pact; phase-down of unabated coal.
COP21 — Paris, France (Dec 2015). Paris Agreement adopted.

How to follow

The UNFCCC secretariat publishes the official agenda, daily journals, draft texts, and live webcast at unfccc.int and on the YouTube UN Climate Change channel. Earth Negotiations Bulletin (IISD) provides verified daily summaries. Carbon Brief, Climate Home News, BBC, Reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, NHK and Anadolu Agency anchor English- and Turkish-language coverage. Plenary sessions and high-level roundtables are open to credentialed observers; informal-informal consultations are closed. The COP31 Presidency posts the Türkiye-Australia letters and indaba notes daily.

Pair COP31 with the G20 summit in Miami and the G7 summit in Évian, which both feed climate finance into the Antalya text. The annual cycle continues with COP32 in Addis Ababa in November 2027. UN system context comes from the BRICS summit in New Delhi and the NATO summit in Ankara, the latter putting Türkiye on the world stage twice in 2026.

FAQ

When is COP31? Monday 9 November to Friday 20 November 2026. Where is COP31 held? Antalya, Türkiye, with negotiation chair leadership from Australia under a co-presidency arrangement. Why does COP31 matter? It locks in the next iteration of NDCs (2031–2035), advances the Loss and Damage Fund's first disbursements, and is the first COP without the US as a Party. Who chairs the negotiations? Türkiye holds the Presidency; Australia chairs negotiation tracks under the troika with Brazil and the UAE.

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COP31 UN Climate Change Conference is tracked as a scheduled event. The date is suitable for countdown and calendar use, while final logistics should still be checked against the linked source.

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https://unfccc.int/cop31

Source host: unfccc.int
Date precision: Single scheduled date from the linked source
Schema posture: Event startDate emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled/confirmed
Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger

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Evidence score

6/10 record signals

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Evidence score6/10 signals present: primary source URL; tracked date; schema-safe date; place context; manual official-source note; related event cluster
Date and schemaSchema-safe single date: Single-date event without a reliable public start time; date-first countdown only. Event structured data is emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled or confirmed.
Local-time readinessDate-first only: The record is not used as a city-local event page until it has a reliable time, timezone, and non-windowed date.
Record completeness1 concrete fields: country Turkey
Weak-field watchlist3 fields to improve: verified public start time; venue; historical sequence
Source freshnessunfccc.int; reviewed 2026-04-30: Related crawl path: ASEAN Summit 2026 (Philippines), APEC China Summit 2026 — Shenzhen, G20 Summit 2026 (USA), UK Post Office Horizon Inquiry Volume 2 Report.

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How to use this COP31 UN Climate Change Conference countdown

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Date confidence

COP31 UN Climate Change Conference is tracked as scheduled for Monday, November 9, 2026; the countdown can support reminders while final logistics still belong to unfccc.int. The page can emit precise Event structured data because the tracked record has a single scheduled or confirmed date.

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Local-time usefulness

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Category context

COP31 UN Climate Change Conference sits in Political with country Turkey. Related countdown links should help users compare similar events, not create unverified event-city pages.

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Verification trail

source URL https://unfccc.int/cop31. trust checks: Source host: unfccc.int, Date precision: Single scheduled date from the linked source, Schema posture: Event startDate emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled/confirmed, and Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger. manual editorial context is attached.

Record completeness

present fields: country Turkey. missing or weak fields: verified public start time, venue, and historical sequence

Related crawl path

Nearby retained events: ASEAN Summit 2026 (Philippines), APEC China Summit 2026 — Shenzhen, G20 Summit 2026 (USA), UK Post Office Horizon Inquiry Volume 2 Report, and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2026. These links should support topical discovery without creating unverified event-city pages.

Review boundary: this page tracks the public date signal, source link, category, region, and calendar posture. It does not replace official ticketing, exchange, broadcaster, organizer, court, regulator, or government notices.

Source reviewed Apr 30, 2026. The countdown record is intentionally labeled as scheduled or expected; use the source link and any range notes before treating the date as final.

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