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Carbon management
at COP31

A guide for tracking international carbon management policy, deployment, negotiations, and partnerships in Antalya

Overview

At COP31, the priority is project delivery, commercial deployment, and infrastructure scaling. Guided by a dual arrangement with Türkiye holding the presidency and leading the Action Agenda while Australia leads the formal negotiations, this “Implementation COP” is designed to turn high level commitments into steel-in-the-ground projects.

In Antalya, discussions will examine how governments integrate carbon management into their next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), frame the distinct roles for CCS and carbon dioxide removal in negotiated text, and shape the international carbon markets under Article 6. This webpage provides a focused way to follow these key developments.

Daily updates

Updates from COP31

Follow the Global CCS Institute’s team on the ground at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye,
as we share regular updates, perspectives and reflections from across the conference.

 

11 November 2026

Update #2

In our second update from COP31, Senior Global Advocacy Lead Noora Al Almer shares her perspective from Antalya and reflects on some of the key conversations emerging as the conference progresses.
View video (YouTube)
12 November 2026

Update #3

In our third update from COP31, Dr Richard Leese, Head of Europe, shares his perspective from Antalya and reflects on the announcement made by Türkiye and its implications for industrial decarbonisation and carbon management.

Read more in the Institute’s Carbon Management in Türkiye report.
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Global CCS Institute led events at COP31

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10 Nov

Blue Zone

17:00 - 19:00

CMC Evening Reception

Organisers: Carbon Management Challenge

Join fellow CMC participants and partners for an evening of conversation connection as we exchange ideas and strengthen collaboration across the carbon management community. Space is limited. Reach out to secretariat@carbonmanagementchallenge.org for details.

11 Nov

Blue Zone

11:30-12:15

Nordic Pavilion

The Nordics as a Launchpad for Scaling Carbon Management

Organisers: Global CCS Institute and Research Council of Norway

Hear what Nordic CCS deployment can teach other markets, from policy and innovation to cross-border CO₂ infrastructure and scaling carbon management.

11 Nov

Blue Zone

15:30-16:30

Malaysia Pavilion

Malaysia’s Next Growth Frontier: The Role of CCS

Organisers: Global CCS Institute and Malaysia's Ministry of Economy

Discover how CCS can support Malaysia’s industrial growth, competitiveness and investment ambitions while strengthening regional leadership in carbon management.

12 Nov

Blue Zone

15:30-17:00

Republic of Korea Pavilion

Enabling Cross-Border CCS: Policy, Science and Deployment

Organisers: Global CCS Institute, Korea CCUS Association

Examine the policy, science and practical foundations for cross-border CO₂ transport and storage, and what is needed to move from ambition to deployment.

13 Nov

Blue Zone

11:15-12:00

IETA Pavilion

Decarbonising AI Data Centres

Organisers: Global CCS Institute and International CCS Knowledge Centre

Consider how CCS can help meet the rapidly growing electricity needs of AI and data centres with reliable, lower-carbon power alongside renewables.

13 Nov

Blue Zone

10:30-11:15

IETA Pavilion

Financing Carbon Management Projects to Support Net-Zero Targets

Organisers: Global CCS Institute and International CCS Knowledge Centre

See how carbon pricing, public-private partnerships, tax incentives, shared infrastructure and robust MRV can help make CCS projects investable.

13 Nov

Blue Zone

15:00-16:30

UNFCCC Side Event Room 8 - Bergama

From NDCs to Net Zero: Unlocking CCS Opportunities and Investment

Organisers: Global CCS Institute, CCS Brazil Association, Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN), The European Network of Excellence on Geological Storage of CO2 (CO2GeoNet)

Learn how CCS can translate climate commitments into investable projects, supported by geological storage, enabling policy and public-private finance.

19 Nov

Blue Zone

13:00-14:15

Special Event Room 2 - Likya

Ministerial Event: Scaling Carbon Management for Green Industrialization

Organisers: The Carbon Management Challenge, COP31 Presidency

Join the Carbon Management Challenge ministerial roundtable focused on scaling carbon management for green industrialisation. Space is limited.

Other Institute speaking events

11

Nov

TBC  |  Blue Zone  |  GCCA Pavilion

CCUS in Practice: The 15-Year Journey from Idea to Infrastructure

Organiser: Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA)

17

Nov

15:00-16:30  |  Blue Zone  |  China Pavilion

Scaling Up CCUS to Advance China’s Net-Zero Transition

Other carbon management-related events at COP31

9

Nov

18:30-20:00  |  Blue Zone  |  Side Event Room 2, Dalyan

ICAO: UN Decade of Sustainable Transport – Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Through UN System Synergies (Steel, Hydrogen, Bio-Based Sectors)

Organiser: CEM Future Fuels

10

Nov

16:00-17:00  |  Blue Zone  |  Ukraine Pavilion

Preparing Ukraine for CCS: Building a CO2 Value Chain for Industrial Decarbonisation

Organiser: Naftogaz Group and JSC Ukrnafta team

10

Nov

TBC  |  TBC  |  TBC

CCUS at Scale: Building a Bankable Carbon-Management Ecosystem

Organiser: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)

12-13

Nov

TBC  |  Blue Zone  |  Blue Zone

COP31 Business & Investment Summit in Antalya

Organiser: Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)

13

Nov

17:00-18:30  |  Blue Zone  |  UNIDO Pavilion

IDDI and Partners: Unlocking Markets for Low Carbon and Near-Zero Industrial Products – The Power of Procurement

Organiser: CEM Future Fuels

13

Nov

18:30-20:00  |  Blue Zone  |  UNFCCC Side Event Room 6

How can CCS help in addressing the requirements of CBAM initiatives including for Turkiye?

Organiser: University of Texas at Austin, Bellona Foundation, Carbon Capture and Storage Associations (CCSA), The International CCS Knowledge Centre

18

Nov

11:30-13:00  |  Blue Zone  |  Benelux-EIB Pavilion

Netherlands: Creating Clean Demand – Accelerating Trade and Investment Across Global Value Chains (Hydrogen, Chemicals, Bio-based)

Organiser: CEM Future Fuels

Resources library
Key Climate Action Tracks

What GCCSI is watching in Antalya

Industrial delivery

The mitigation work programme (MWP) supports increased climate ambition and implementation, including investment and technology needs. The 2026 theme for the MWP is enabling mitigation ambition and implementation in industries, drawing on national and regional experiences.

Finance and projects

Developing countries often cite technology access, capacity building and finance as essential for industrial decarbonisation. The Technology Mechanism and GCF can support knowledge sharing, enabling conditions and carbon management project development.

NDCs and GST2

Carbon management is increasingly reflected in NDCs and was recognised in the GST1 outcome, the UAE Consensus, through reference to “abatement and removal technologies”, including CCUS, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors. This provides a foundation for GST2, which kicks off at COP31 and concludes at COP33.

Just transition and trade

The just transition work programme examines the social and economic impacts of climate action, while trade is emerging as a new area of discussion at this year’s mid-year negotiations in Bonn.

Article 6 and MRV

Article 6 is moving into implementation, with carbon market infrastructure and reporting systems being operationalised. MRV is also transitioning to the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework, strengthening emissions reporting and tracking of NDC progress.

Action agenda and partnerships

Action agenda and partnerships: The Global Climate Action Agenda and the renewed Marrakech Partnership are helping translate climate commitments into implementation by mobilising voluntary action and bringing governments, businesses and other stakeholders together around practical delivery.

Practical guidance

COP Navigation Guide

Know where decisions happen

Know where decisions happen. SBI and SBSTA are key negotiating bodies where implementation, methodological, scientific, and technical issues are developed before decisions move to the COP, CMA, or CMP. Explore UNFCCC governing and subsidiary bodies.

Follow the negotiating text

Draft text is the clearest indicator of progress. Square brackets [ … ] mark unresolved language, while competing options can show differences in Party positions. 

Track how discussions evolve

Negotiations move from contact groups into smaller informal consultations as Parties work through disagreements. Format changes signal the maturity of an emerging text.

Look for implementation signals

Look beyond explicit references to CCS or carbon dioxide removal. Relevant UNFCCC decisions may address related issues through broader provisions on implementation, accounting, methodologies, reporting, support, and cooperation.

Understand negotiating blocs and constituencies

Track party groupings such as AOSIS, the LDC Group, African Group, LMDCs, Arab Group, and EU to understand negotiating positions.

Attending as an observer? Know your constituency for coordination, information-sharing, and engagement. See Constituencies and you.

Engage outside formal sessions

Bilateral meetings, official side events, pavilion events, informal discussions and voluntary coalitions can reveal emerging national priorities and opportunities for collaboration before they appear in formal text.

From Recognition to Delivery

Priority actions for carbon management

  • Turn NDCs into concrete sector plans and project pipelines.
  • Inform GST2 and mitigation discussions with implementation evidence.
  • Finalise Article 6 accounting and MRV frameworks.
  • Connect technical assistance directly with project preparation and finance.
  • Develop shared CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure networks.
  • Increase technical and financial support for project development in emerging and developing economies.
  • Account for local jobs, industrial competitiveness, safeguards, and national circumstances.
  • Keep carbon management communications specific, measurable, and evidence-based.
  • Connect formal negotiations with practical implementation initiatives.
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Institute position

Key messages for carbon management

Electrification must reduce emissions

Its climate benefit depends on the emissions intensity of the power system supply.

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Industry needs a portfolio of solutions

CCS can address process emissions in sectors such as cement, steel, and chemicals.

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Climate stabilisation requires carbon removal

Engineered carbon dioxide removal is necessary to counterbalance residual emissions and address carbon in sectors such as aviation, shipping, and agriculture.

Dive deeper

Deployment depends on public confidence

Strong regulation, monitoring, transparent evidence, and meaningful engagement are essential.

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Expertise at COP 31

Meet the GCCSI experts

Media and meeting enquiries

Communications will connect you with the most relevant available expert.

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Reference

Glossary of key terms

A - C
Article 6
A provision of the Paris Agreement that enables countries to cooperate voluntarily in meeting their climate targets, including through international carbon markets.
Bankability
The extent to which a project has the technical, commercial, regulatory and financial conditions required to attract investment.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
A process in which captured carbon dioxide is either used in products or processes, or permanently stored.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
A process in which carbon dioxide is captured from an industrial or energy source, transported and permanently stored in suitable geological formations.
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere followed by its durable storage.
Carbon management
A broad term for approaches that capture, transport, use, store or remove carbon dioxide to reduce emissions or deliver durable carbon removals.
Climate finance
Public or private finance used to support activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or strengthen resilience to climate change, including finance provided or mobilised to support developing countries in implementing their climate commitments.
Conference of the Parties (COP)
The governing body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which meets annually to advance international climate action.
CO₂ transport and storage network
Shared infrastructure used to move captured carbon dioxide from one or more sources to sites where it can be permanently stored.
G - N
Global Stocktake (GST)
A five-yearly assessment under the Paris Agreement of collective progress towards its long-term climate goals.
Hard-to-abate
Describing sectors or emissions that are particularly difficult to eliminate because of technical, economic or process-related constraints.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The United Nations body responsible for assessing scientific knowledge on climate change, including its causes, impacts, risks and options for mitigation and adaptation
Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)
The systems and procedures used to measure, report and verify emissions, emissions reductions, carbon dioxide storage or removals.
Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
A national climate plan submitted under the Paris Agreement setting out a country’s targets and actions for reducing emissions and adapting to climate change.
P - S
Paris Agreement
The international climate agreement adopted in 2015 with the goal of holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.
Process emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions produced by the chemical or physical processes used to manufacture materials, rather than by the combustion of fuel alone.
SBI
The Subsidiary Body for Implementation, which supports the implementation, reporting and review of UNFCCC and Paris Agreement commitments.
SBSTA
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, which supports the UNFCCC process on scientific, technical and methodological matters.
T - U
UNFCCC
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international treaty that provides the foundation for global climate negotiations.

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