The 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) will be held in Antalya from 9 to 20 November. The main topic of the meeting will be the transition to the practical implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, reports the Anadolu agency.
Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to strive to hold the rise in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. However, a UN review notes that the world, on the contrary, is heading towards exceeding this threshold.
Among the main issues at COP31 will be climate finance and emissions reduction. These areas are provided for in the Paris Agreement, but countries have so far been unable to agree on specific mechanisms for their implementation.
Representatives of the United States, the world's largest economy by nominal GDP, are not taking part in the conference. President Donald Trump opposes the Paris Agreement. In 2017, during his first presidential term, the US announced its withdrawal from the agreement, and after Joe Biden came to power it rejoined. On the first day of his second presidential term, Trump again signed an executive order on the US withdrawal from the agreement.
