Türkiye will seek to deliver a historic action plan with concrete solutions to the climate crisis at the COP31 it will host in November, Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum said Tuesday.
"Do not expect a piece of paper from Antalya that will gather dust on shelves," Kurum, who is also president of this year's U.N. climate summit, told an event in the capital Ankara. "We will produce a strong action plan that will shake the world to its foundations and rewrite history."
The annual COP conference is the main global forum for driving action on climate change. The long-established consensus among the world's scientists is that climate change is real, mostly caused by humans, and getting worse. Its main cause is greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, which trap heat in the atmosphere.
Kurum said this year's summit in the southern Mediterranean province will be "the COP of implementation" focused on turning climate commitments into tangible action rather than setting new targets.
"The world does not need to constantly set new targets at the negotiating table. What it needs is an unwavering will to turn those targets into action in the field, in industry and in cities," the minister noted.
