On the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Türkiye (COP31)
B-10-2026-0468
on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Pierfranceso Maran, Lídia Pereira, Heléne Fritzon, Emma Wiesner, Pär Holmgren, Lynn Boylan
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Parliament's resolution sets out its position ahead of the 2026 UN climate conference in Antalya (COP31). It calls for faster cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a phase-out of fossil fuels and more climate finance for developing countries.¶¶¶ It asks all parties to submit ambitious national climate plans, backs the COP31 Presidency's proposed economy-wide targets and calls for a global framework to govern solar radiation modification.¶¶¶ It calls for stronger action on adaptation, loss and damage, oceans, biodiversity, methane, transport, agriculture and the rights of indigenous peoples, and for gender equality across climate policy.¶¶¶ It urges the EU to close its own emissions gap, adopt a 2040 framework and align its budget and external instruments with climate goals, and asks for Parliament to be part of the EU delegation at COP31.¶¶¶
Key points
- Stresses that 2025 was one of the hottest years recorded, that Europe is the fastest warming continent and that El Niño is predicted to be exceptionally strong in 2026 and 2027.¶
- Calls for global emissions cuts of 43 % by 2030 and 60 % by 2035 relative to 2019, net-zero by 2050 and net-negative emissions after; regrets that most parties missed the February 2025 deadline for 2035 targets.¶¶
- Calls on all parties to submit or update ambitious national climate plans, backs the Global Implementation Accelerator and asks that the next global stocktake use the best science and cover gender, human rights and ecosystems.¶¶
- Welcomes the COP31 Presidency's proposed targets on electrification, waste, circular material use and building energy intensity, and calls on all parties to commit to them.¶
- Regrets the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, calls on the US to reconsider and invites US states, cities and non-governmental actors to keep engaging in climate cooperation.¶¶
- Urges parties to bring a fossil fuel transition roadmap into COP31 negotiations, develop a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and time-bound phase-out plans, and halt new investment in fossil fuel extraction.¶¶
- Calls on the Commission to present an external strategy for the global fossil fuel transition, an EU timeline and targets for an economy-wide phase-out, and data on expected falls in EU fossil fuel demand and imports.¶¶¶
- Calls for closing the climate finance gap, fair contributions to the New Collective Quantified Goal, more grant-based finance, debt relief for vulnerable countries and simpler access procedures.¶¶¶
- Calls for loss and damage to be a standing COP agenda item, for rapid scaling-up of the fund for responding to loss and damage, and for operationalising the global goal on adaptation and the Just Transition Mechanism at COP31.¶¶¶
- Notes the EU is on course for only around a 54 % emissions cut by 2030 and is off track for 2040 and 2050; calls for a legislative framework for the 2040 target and an updated EU climate plan before the deadline.¶¶¶
- Calls for aligning climate, biodiversity and pollution action, including nature-based solutions, the Global Framework on Chemicals, forest and wetland protection, soil and water measures, and a global plastics treaty.¶¶¶
- Calls for protecting indigenous peoples' rights and consent, embedding oceans in COP31, addressing climate security, cutting methane, decarbonising transport and shipping, and governing solar radiation modification.¶¶¶
Who is affected
- EU member states and the Commission: asked to close the EU emissions gap, adopt a 2040 framework and align budgets and external instruments with climate goals.¶¶¶
- Developing countries and least developed countries: targeted for increased grant-based climate finance, debt relief and support for adaptation and loss and damage.¶¶¶
- Fossil fuel producers and investors: urged to end subsidies, halt new extraction investment and support a transition treaty and phase-out plans.¶¶
- Indigenous peoples and local communities: their rights, consent and direct access to climate finance are to be protected and funded.¶¶
- EU industries and small and medium-sized enterprises: to receive better access to finance for decarbonisation while keeping competitiveness.¶¶
Figures and deadlines
- USD 300 billion annually by 2035: objective to triple financing for developing countries under the New Collective Quantified Goal.¶
- USD 1.3 trillion per year by 2035: scale-up of financing from public and private sources.
- At least 55 % by 2030 and 90 % by 2040: EU net greenhouse gas reduction targets compared to 1990 levels.¶¶
- 43 % by 2030 and 60 % by 2035 relative to 2019: emissions cuts needed to limit warming to 1.5 °C.¶
- 108 countries covering 71 % of global emissions had submitted new national climate plans as of COP30.¶
- EUR 31.7 billion from public sources in 2024 and EUR 11 billion in private finance: EU and member state climate finance.¶
- USD 310 to 365 billion annually by 2035: estimated adaptation finance gap.¶
- Six-fold to 1 500 GW by 2030: energy storage target in the Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge.¶