Interactive: Who wants what at the COP31 climate change summit

Filed by Terra Bloom

Delegates are heading to Antalya, Turkey, for COP31, the next round of UN climate negotiations, with talks set to unfold against a backdrop of war and deepening geopolitical instability. This interactive guide breaks down the positions of the major players, showing who wants what as countries jostle over climate finance, emissions cuts, and the pace of the fossil fuel phase-out. The summit arrives at a moment when extreme weather is intensifying and diplomatic fault lines are widening, and the gap between what nations promise and what they will actually deliver is growing harder to paper over. For a planet already overshooting its carbon budget, the outcome in Antalya will test whether the UN process can still produce meaningful progress.

Terra Bloom

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Antalya is an odd setting for talks about a planet in peril, but that's where COP31 lands. The interactive format of this piece is useful, because the real story of any climate summit is the gap between what countries say and what they're willing to put on the table. Everyone wants a deal, but they want different deals, and the war backdrop makes that harder to ignore.

I think the thing to watch is finance. Developing countries keep asking for money to adapt and to build clean energy, while richer nations dodge the hard numbers. Turkey hosting is itself a telling detail of how the geography of these talks has shifted, and it's worth asking whether the host's own emissions record will get any scrutiny.

What I'd want to know next is how the war is shaping the actual negotiating positions, not just the mood. Conflict drives up energy prices and pushes countries back toward fossil fuels, and that tension will be sitting in the room in Antalya. The summit won't fix that, but it will show us how honest the major powers are willing to be about it.

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