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cop31Türkiye aims to strengthen its energy and climate diplomacy through COP31 and turn global climate targets into concrete, measurable and investment-ready projects. That message emerges from recent statements by Turkish officials ahead of the 31st UN Climate Change Conference, in Antalya, Türkiye, from 9 to 20 November 2026. According to Anadolu, reporting on 22 October
Read full storycop31The COP31 Antalya venue is ready for the world. The former EXPO 2016 grounds in Antalya's Aksu district have been adapted to host the 31st United Nations climate conference from 9 to 20 November 2026, and a ministerial inspection on 23 October confirmed the scale of the gathering: 85 world leaders are expected, with a
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cop31China urges COP31 in Antalya to focus on implementation, a finance roadmap for the $300 billion goal by 2035, tripled adaptation finance and freer green technology trade.
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cop31Türkiye has presented the COP31 climate summit in Antalya as a COP31 implementation conference, telling an audience in Jakarta that the summit must turn climate pledges into concrete projects backed by adequate funding. The message was delivered on 19 October 2026 at the ESG Now Leadership Forum and Awards 2026 in Jakarta, where Burak Gunes,
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cop31COP31 president-designate Murat Kurum has called on wealthy countries to spend "much more" on COP31 climate spending than on defence, warning that governments pledging 5 percent of GDP to military budgets are underfunding an even greater security threat: the climate crisis itself. Kurum spoke at the Fiji pre-COP meeting (October 5–8, Nadi), where some 4,000
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cop31The COP31 presidency has framed the Antalya summit as an "Implementation COP", built around a 10-theme Action Agenda with six global 2035 targets. (Illustration: Watan News) With three weeks to go before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, the summit's presidency has put hard numbers on the table: the COP31 Action Agenda sets six global implementation
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cop31Bangladesh has confirmed that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will attend the COP31 World Leaders Summit on 11–12 November in Antalya, a key step in the planning for the high-level segment of the United Nations climate conference. The confirmation was conveyed on 18 October 2026 by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam during a
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cop31Less than four weeks before the COP31 climate summit opens in Antalya, Türkiye has set out how it wants the conference to work: less about new pledges, more about COP31 local climate solutions that cities and communities can actually use. That message dominated the Ankara Climate Transition Forum, which brought municipalities, scientists, financiers and international
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cop31Less than a month before COP31 opens in Antalya, representatives of three successive UN climate presidencies gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York, putting COP31 trust at the centre of the agenda: how can the world restore trust in climate action when the damage of a warming planet is already being felt. The high-level
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cop31Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman confirmed on Wednesday that he has been invited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to attend the COP31 climate summit in Antalya next month — and that he will travel to the Turkish Mediterranean city. The confirmation came one day after Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides announced his own attendance, meaning
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cop31Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed on October 13 that he will attend COP31 in Antalya next month, in what would be the first visit by a Cypriot president to Türkiye in a decade. A day later, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman confirmed his own invitation from President Erdogan. Both announcements settle months of uncertainty over Cyprus's place at the summit.
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cop31Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed on 13 October that Cyprus will attend COP31 in Antalya, ending a months-long diplomatic dispute over the summit invitation.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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