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UN Climate Change Conference 2026 in Antalya, Türkiye (COP31)

TA-10-2026-0367 · P10_TA(2026)0367 · PE786.880

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Parliament's resolution sets out its position ahead of the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye. It calls for urgent emission cuts, a global phase-out of fossil fuels, more climate finance and adaptation funding, and protection of nature, oceans and indigenous rights. It asks all Parties to submit ambitious national climate plans, backs the COP31 Presidency's proposed economy-wide targets and the Global Implementation Accelerator, and urges the EU to set a timeline and targets for phasing out fossil fuels. It calls for scaling up climate finance, including grants, debt relief and simpler access, and for loss and damage funding to be additional to existing contributions. It also demands action on methane, transport, carbon pricing and the circular economy. It criticises Türkiye's exclusion of Cyprus from COP31 preparatory events and its crackdown on civil society, and asks hosts to guarantee participation and human rights. It also calls for transparency rules against fossil fuel lobbying and climate disinformation.

Key points

  1. Stresses that 2025 was one of the hottest years on record and that Europe is the fastest warming continent; warns of severe consequences from a strong El Niño in 2026 and 2027.
  2. Says limiting warming to 1,5 °C requires global greenhouse gas cuts of 43 % by 2030 and 60 % by 2035 relative to 2019, and net-zero emissions globally by 2050.
  3. Regrets that most Parties, including the EU, missed the February 2025 deadline for 2035 climate plans; calls on all Parties to submit or update ambitious plans without delay.
  4. Supports the Global Implementation Accelerator and the COP31 Presidency's proposed targets on electrification, waste, circular material use and building energy efficiency; calls on all Parties to commit.
  5. Condemns Türkiye's exclusion of Cyprus from COP31 preparatory meetings and its promotion of the secessionist entity in occupied Cyprus; calls for full, equal participation of Cyprus.
  6. Urges all Parties to bring the transition-away-from-fossil-fuels roadmap into COP31 negotiations, develop a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and halt new fossil fuel extraction investments.
  7. Calls on the EU to set a timeline, targets and strategy for an economy-wide fossil fuel phase-out, and on the Commission to report expected declines in EU fossil fuel demand and imports.
  8. Calls for closing the climate finance gap, with the EU and member states increasing grants and concessional finance, and for fair shares towards the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance.
  9. 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 its resources to be additional to current climate finance.
  10. Calls for national adaptation plans, tripling adaptation finance by 2035, and a European framework for climate resilience and risk management that reflects overshoot scenarios and nature-based solutions.
  11. Calls for specific methane reduction targets in national climate plans, a methane reduction buyers' club, and full implementation of the EU methane regulation.
  12. Calls for transparency rules against undue influence, no fossil fuel lobbyists in national delegations, and action against climate disinformation; demands host countries guarantee civil society participation and human rights.

Who is affected

  • EU member states and the Commission: asked to raise climate finance, set a fossil fuel phase-out timeline and submit an updated climate plan.
  • Türkiye as COP31 host: called on to ensure Cyprus's participation, protect civil society and respect international law.
  • Developing countries and least developed countries: targeted for grants, debt relief, simpler finance access and adaptation support.
  • Indigenous peoples and local communities: to have their rights, consent and direct access to climate finance protected.
  • Fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists: to be excluded from EU and national COP31 delegations and subject to transparency rules.

Figures and deadlines

  • USD 300 billion annually by 2035: goal to triple financing for developing countries.
  • USD 1.3 trillion per year by 2035: goal to scale up financing from public and private sources.
  • 35 %: proposed share of final energy demand met by electricity in the COP31 action agenda.
  • At least 15 %: proposed global circular material use rate.
  • At least 25 %: proposed reduction in building sector energy consumption intensity.
  • 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.
  • 1 500 GW by 2030: target to increase energy storage six-fold under the Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge.