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Erdogan urges richer nations to fund climate action at COP31
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya on November 11, 2026.
He urged developed countries to provide more funding to cut emissions and help address climate change.
Turkey is seeking to make the summit focus on turning climate promises into practical steps, and is sharing its presidency with Australia.
The summit began amid concern that countries’ actions are falling short of their climate commitments, with the United States, China and India among the major emitters whose leaders were absent.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a climate justice pact focused on a fair shift away from fossil fuels, protecting people at risk, providing enough funding and working across political divides.
He also called for tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2035, compared with 2025, to help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Erdogan and Guterres urged leaders to use the summit to agree on practical action, but the account does not say what agreements were reached.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged developed countries to take greater responsibility for funding efforts to combat climate change and cut emissions.
He made the appeal in the opening speech at the COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya, Turkey.
Erdogan said Turkey wants the conference to focus on implementation and turn climate commitments into concrete action.
He criticized the gap between international agreements and action on the ground.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for stronger international cooperation and adequate climate finance.
- Who
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged developed countries to provide more climate finance.
- What
- He called for greater funding to fight climate change and reduce emissions.
- When
- Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
- Where
- The COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya, southwestern Turkey.
- Why
- Erdogan said international climate agreements have not translated into enough practical action.
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Turkey launched its Zero Waste initiative, led by Erdogan’s wife, Emine Erdogan.
Turkey’s commercial recycling and recovery rate had risen to about 40 percent, from about 13 percent when the initiative began.
Erdogan urged developed countries to take greater responsibility for climate finance in his opening speech at the COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya.
- Summit location
- Antalya, southwestern Turkey
- Summit date
- November 11, 2026
- Turkey’s electricity target
- 35 percent of global energy consumption by 2035
- Waste generation target
- Cut the growth in waste production by 50 percent
- Zero Waste recycling and recovery rate
- About 40 percent by the end of last year
- Waste returned to the economy
- 90 million tonnes
What people are saying
We hope this conference will be a new turning point in combating the climate crisis, and I believe we will achieve that with your support.
Let us finally stop the greedy mindset that sacrifices the environment for the economy.
But they are required to cooperate on issues that no country can address alone.
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مشاركة وفد المملكة برئاسة سمو الأمير عبدالعزيز بن سلمان وزير الطاقة، وزير الصناعة والثروة المعدنية في مؤتمر الدول الأطراف لاتفاقية الأمم المتحدة الإطارية بشأن تغير المناخ (COP31).