#COP31

Chris Bowen, COP31 president of negotiation, left, and European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen, in Antalya on 10 November 2026.

COP31 moves into negotiation in Antalya with the money-versus-fossil-fuels deadlock unresolved

Official portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, released by the Palácio do Planalto in 2023.

Lula calls for US$1.3 trillion a year at COP31 and says rich nations developed at the planet's expense

Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, walks with delegates in the COP30 Blue Zone in Belém in November 2025. He presides over COP31.

COP31 opens in Antalya with a fight over finance before the first session, and no US administration officials

The bay of Antalya, in southern Türkiye, the city hosting COP31, seen from Karaalioğlu Park in 2022.

COP31 opens on Monday in Antalya with Türkiye holding the presidency and Australia running the negotiations

The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007.

Climate and health

WHO says six climate and health actions could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year, one in every 40 worldwide

The facade of the Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Brazilian presidency, in Brasília.

Re-elected, Lula sets four foreign trips before January, from COP31 in Turkey to Trump's G20 in Florida

COP30 president, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, and COP29 president, Mukhtar Babayev, at the conference's opening at Parque da Cidade in Belém, on 10 November 2025.

Brazil presents two COP31 roadmaps on 3 November and hands climate leadership over to Türkiye

The headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2014.

WMO logs another greenhouse gas record as CO2 reaches 426.8 ppm in 2025, or 153% of pre-industrial levels

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, left, greets European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera in Brussels in March 2026.

UN says the world will overshoot 1.5°C, and holding the peak at 1.8°C means cutting emissions 18% by 2030