11.11.2026 09:12
The COP31 Leaders Summit will be held today in Antalya, where the world’s largest summit is taking place, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In addition to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 102 leaders from 95 countries will attend the summit. At the opening program, President Erdoğan, UN Secretary-General Guterres, and COP31 President Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum will each deliver a speech.
For the first time, Türkiye is hosting the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the world's most important organization in the fight against climate change. The summit, to be held at the COP31 Area in Antalya between November 9-20, brings together 196 countries party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the European Union.
LEADERS SUMMIT TODAY The COP31 Leaders Summit, the most important event of COP31, will be held today at Anadolu, the largest plenary hall in the Blue Zone of the COP31 Area in Antalya, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 102 leaders from 95 countries across 6 continents are expected to attend the summit. In the program, expected to start at 12:00, President Erdoğan and COP31 President Murat Kurum, as well as UN Secretary-General Guterres, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albenese, and Brazilian President and COP30 President Lula da Silva will each deliver a speech.
FIRE OF ANATOLIA AND ZERO WASTE ON STAGE Videos and special clips prepared by Türkiye for COP31 will be shown during the program. Fire of Anatolia will present a performance that combines the folk dances of Türkiye's 7 geographical regions into a single choreography. The performance will introduce Anatolia's cultural diversity to world leaders with the message of "unity in diversity." The performance will open with the Teke region dances of the Mediterranean Region, where host Antalya is located, and close with all regions coming together in a halay. The performance will convey Zero Waste, the theme of the first day of the Leaders Summit. At the ceremony, COP31's official song "Let's Cop" will be played.
WHICH COUNTRIES ARE ATTENDING AT LEADER LEVEL? The following countries will attend COP31 at leader level: Austria, the United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Finland, the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Montenegro, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, North Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Moldova, Norway, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Ukraine, Botswana, Burundi, Algeria, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, the Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, China, Indonesia, Armenia, Palestine, South Korea, Georgia, Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Maldives, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Australia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Palau, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu.