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COP31 in Antalya: From Pledges to Investment

From Asharq Al-Awsat · () English

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  • Türkiye says its COP31 presidency will focus on implementing climate commitments and mobilizing finance for concrete projects.
  • Climate Minister and COP31 President Murat Kurum outlined three pillars, dialogue, consensus and action, while highlighting delays in delivering promised funds to developing countries.
  • The presidency is consulting governments, financial institutions, cities and businesses on an Action Agenda covering clean energy, electricity, cities, industry, youth and food.

Türkiye wants COP31 in Antalya to move climate diplomacy beyond pledges and toward projects that attract investment and produce visible results. Murat Kurum, the environment, urbanization and climate change minister and COP31 president, said the presidency would be built around “dialogue, consensus and action.”

Dialogue, consensus and action.

· Murat KurumHe identified the three pillars of Türkiye’s COP31 presidency.

Kurum said success would not be measured only by the decisions reached in Antalya. It would also depend on whether those decisions could become viable projects, secure financing and deliver changes that people can see in daily life. Climate change, he said, can no longer stand apart from energy, industry, cities, trade, water and development as heat waves, extreme weather and threats to food and water security intensify.

The presidency has begun consultations with the United Nations system, governments, financial institutions, cities and the private sector to identify barriers to implementation. Those discussions helped shape an Action Agenda covering clean energy, electricity, cities, industry, youth and food.

Words to implementation.

· Murat KurumHe urged countries to focus on carrying out climate decisions.

Climate finance sits at the top of Türkiye’s priorities. Kurum said the issue is no longer simply how much money countries promise, but whether funds reach the countries and projects that need them, and whether they arrive on time. Delays in meeting the earlier pledge of $100 billion a year for developing countries, he said, showed that confidence depends on pledged funds reaching projects.

Turning words into projects, projects into investments, and investments into results that affect people’s lives.

· Murat KurumHe described the practical chain Türkiye wants COP31 to establish.

COP29 in Baku agreed to raise the financing target for developing countries to at least $300 billion annually by 2035, while seeking to increase public and private climate finance flows to $1.3 trillion a year. Kurum described a global paradox: capital is looking for investment opportunities while climate investment needs are enormous, yet the two “do not always meet.”

Do not always meet.

· Murat KurumHe described the gap between available capital and climate investment needs.
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