More than 100 fossil fuel-linked companies and groups represented at Cop31 in Antalya

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1. Nov 13, 2026An analysis found 103 fossil fuel-linked groups at Cop31 in Antalya, including 60 fossil fuel industry bodies and 16 financial companies funding fossil fuels.
2. Nov 13, 2026Among the largest Cop31 delegations were the International Emissions Trading Association with 29 people, BNP Paribas, HSBC and Amazon; Exxon sent 13, TotalEnergies and BlackRock five each.
3. Nov 13, 2026According to the analysis, 30 banks with Cop31 delegations accounted for more than $2.2tn in fossil fuel financing over the past five years, including JPMorganChase, Citigroup and Barclays.
4. Nov 10, 2026Four TotalEnergies emissaries, including CEO Patrick Pouyanné, were accredited to COP31 within the French delegation with UN badges granting access to negotiators' zones.

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• More than 100 companies and groups linked to fossil fuels represented at Cop31, study saystheguardian.com· 33h

  An analysis found more than 100 fossil fuel-linked companies and industry groups sent delegations to the Cop31 climate summit in Antalya, among more than 92,000 delegates at what is thought to be the largest Cop ever. The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition counted 60 fossil fuel bodies and 16 financial firms funding fossil fuels, while campaigners including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse urged disclosure rules, and TotalEnergies defended its attendance as commitment to the energy transition.
• COP31 : le gouvernement français donne à TotalEnergies un accès privilégié aux pourparlers climatiquesmediapart.fr· 4d

  Mickaël Correia reports on mediapart.fr that the French government has given TotalEnergies privileged access to COP31 in Antalya. Four TotalEnergies emissaries, including CEO Patrick Pouyanné, are accredited within the French delegation, with UN badges granting access to negotiators' zones, while France officially defends exiting fossil fuels.

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• As the world's calamities converge climate talks tread waterabc.net.au· 27h

  In an analysis for ABC, Laura Tingle argues the COP31 talks in Antalya are treading water, with the 1.5°C target conceded as blown and key leaders — including the US nationally, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and Mark Carney — absent. She judges the co-presidents' '35 by 35' electrification pledge starkly unambitious and non-binding, while Chris Bowen says meeting it would require quadrupling the pace of electrification and Matt Kean urges Australia to decarbonise its grid and electrify now.
• Climate must remain priority, says António Guterres at last Cop as UN chieftheguardian.com· 28h

  The Guardian reports on António Guterres's final Cop as UN secretary general, where he says climate action must remain central to global governance, arguing that peace, poverty eradication and young people's futures all depend on it. At Cop31 in Antalya, negotiators are working toward a cover decision covering electrification, methane cuts and fossil fuel phaseout, while fears grow his successor may downplay the climate crisis.
• Betrayedsubstack.com· 30h

  Mark Chadbourn's Substack post argues COP31 in Antalya — where UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is the only G7 leader present and Thunberg makes her first attendance since Glasgow 2021 — shows everything wrong with the fight against the climate crisis, as Trump's absence gives other leaders cover to shirk commitments. Quoting Thunberg's line that the world "is not dying, it is being killed," he says governments' short-term thinking is sacrificing the future while a Climate Action Tracker report puts Earth on track for 2.7C of heating.
• Cop31 live: Climate crisis negotiations heat up on fifth day of talkstheguardian.com· 34h

  The Guardian's live blog follows day five of the Cop31 climate talks in Antalya, where nearly all world leaders have departed and real negotiations are expected to begin on a draft cover decision covering fossil fuel transition, electrification, and finance. Alongside the electrification theme and IEA head Fatih Birol's "age of electricity" framing, it reports China's decision not to host Cop33, Sheldon Whitehouse as the only US senator attending without a Trump delegation, the UK's still-unpublished climate security report, and Greenpeace's Trojan horse protest against plastic.
• A new song gives Cop31 Eurovision vibes – but how should we score progress so far?theguardian.com· 38h

  A Down to Earth newsletter visits Cop31 in Antalya, where hosts played world leaders the Eurovision-flavoured song "Let's Cop" after dancers and a troupe costumed in plastic waste, and finds Trump, Macron and Merz absent from Wednesday's leaders' gathering. The newsletter scores progress "nul points" for Turkey and Australia's fossil-fuel use, slow emissions cuts, and lacking climate finance ahead of a looming El Niño.
• グレタさん5年ぶりCOP参加、被災ネパールの議員と気候危機訴え：朝日新聞asahi.com· 47h

  Asahi Shimbun reports that Greta Thunberg, 23, held her first COP press conference since 2021 at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, voicing crisis over climate change alongside a Nepali lawmaker whose area was hit by an August 2026 debris flow. She said irreplaceable lives and ecosystems are being lost, warned the catastrophic trend will worsen exponentially, and urged that we must begin to act.
• UK ministers have no plans to publish explosive report on climate crisistheguardian.com· 2d

  The Guardian reports that UK ministers have no plans to publish the climate report on national security risks from collapsing ecosystems, which Keir Starmer's government suppressed and which warns of food shortages, mass migration and nuclear conflict if the Amazon and other ecosystems collapse. Andy Burnham told Cop31 in Antalya the climate crisis is a major national security threat and pledged net zero by 2050, though Greenpeace says his backing of the Jackdaw gasfield and possible Rosebank oilfield drowns out his words.
• Cop31: ‘The crisis is upon us now’, Burnham tells climate summittheguardian.com· 2d

  Ajit Niranjan's Guardian liveblog tracks Cop31 in Antalya, where Andy Burnham arrives to address the summit, warning in quoted remarks that "the crisis is upon us now" and pledging a new era of British leadership on net zero. The UK plans a world-first climate security representative, while negotiators remain split over whether this year's meeting will produce a binding cover decision, with the Arab Group, Russia and like-minded countries reportedly opposed.
• Andy Burnham pledges 'new era of British leadership' on climate in speech at COP31 summit - follow livebbc.com· 2d

  The BBC live report covers Andy Burnham's COP31 speech in Antalya, where the UK prime minister — the only G7 leader attending — pledges a "new era of British leadership" on climate, names Dame Madeleine Alessandri the world's first special representative for climate security, and backs a £5bn clean energy finance programme. The report also tracks absent leaders including Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, Nepal's push for mountain issues after its deadly glacier-collapse flood, Tuvalu's climate visa ballot with Australia, and green criticism that Burnham's record on Rosebank and electric vehicle targets looks like "doublethink".
• UN slams those who are 'making a killing' as the planet diesthenewdaily.com.au· 3d

  The New Daily reports from the COP31 leaders' summit in Antalya, Turkey, where UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the climate crisis is "outrunning us" and that fossil fuel interests keep "making a killing while killing our planet," urging an end to the fossil-fuel addiction and more investment in renewables. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged world leaders to support the Pacific Resilience Facility, a fund raising $US500 million ($726 million) for Pacific nations facing rising seas and extreme weather.
• Australia's climate credibility questioned at UN conferenceabc.net.au· 3d

  ABC News reports that at the COP31 summit in Antalya, Türkiye, which Australia is co-leading, Anthony Albanese urged stepped-up climate action and support for Pacific nations while critics, including Adam Bandt and climate advocates, said new coal and gas approvals undermine the country's climate leadership. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned the world must stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure.
• Thunberg and Guterres blast oil companies for "fossil fuel addiction"euronews.com· 3d

  Greta Thunberg and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasted fossil fuel companies for "killing our planet" at the COP31 talks in Turkey, where Thunberg — attending her first summit since 2021 — called the annual conference hypocritical and "full of lobbyists." Guterres urged governments to tax oil companies' windfall profits, while the negotiations, running to 20 November, face low expectations of breakthroughs amid the US war with Iran and Russia's war in Ukraine.
• Cop31 live: World leaders to speak at climate crisis summittheguardian.com· 3d

  The Guardian's Cop31 liveblog tracks the leaders' summit in Antalya, where dozens of world leaders are expected for speeches but most G7 heads are absent, including leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan; only the UK's leader is attending. Climate Action Network gave its "fossil of the day" to the absent leaders of wealthy countries, several reportedly headed for Dublin's AI summit instead.
• Live updates: Democrat Scott Colom wins election to US Senate from Mississippiapnews.com· 3d

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• UN chief urges Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia to turn fossil fuel promises into actiontheguardian.com· 4d

  The Guardian reports that UN secretary general António Guterres urged Cop31's co-hosts, Turkey and Australia, to move from discussing the end of fossil fuels to delivering it, as Brazil presented a roadmap for the transition at the Antalya summit. Erdoğan extolled his country's oilfields before his appearance, more than 700 groups demanded a just-transition mechanism, and Greta Thunberg called the Cop talks greenwashed circuses.
• Cop31 live: ‘Everything and everyone we love is at stake,’ Greta Thunberg warnstheguardian.com· 4d

  The Guardian's live blog covers day two of the Cop31 UN climate summit in Antalya, where Greta Thunberg makes her first Cop appearance since Glasgow 2021, warning that everything and everyone we love is at stake, and scientists report fossil fuel emissions have flatlined for 2026. The blog also follows Turkey's announcement of two new Gabar oilfields that critics call contradictory, John Kerry's praise of China's clean-energy lead, more than 700 groups pushing for a just transition mechanism, and a steelworks explosion near Izmir that has killed 17.
• What officials want to prioritize at this year’s U.N. climate conferencewashingtonpost.com· 4d

  A Washington Post article previews what officials hope to prioritize at this year's U.N. climate conference. It reports that COP31 kicked off in Antalya, Turkey, aiming to compel nations to follow through on pledges to curb calamitous global temperature rise.
• COP31 is here. Will anyone finally say "fossil fuels"?motherjones.com· 4d

  Mother Jones previews the COP31 climate summit opening November 9, 2026 in Antalya, Turkey—hosted under an unusual compromise but presided over by Australia—and traces nearly 30 years of negotiations that avoided naming fossil fuels until COP28's 2023 agreement, which the article says neglected to say how or when a phaseout would happen. It reports a UN warning that the world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, quotes John Kerry calling the US absence under Trump a defeat of the meetings' purpose, and notes the second straight year without a US delegation.
• High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate negotiator tells Cop31theguardian.com· 5d

  The Guardian reports on the opening of the Cop31 climate talks in Turkey, where UN negotiator Simon Stiell warned that high fossil fuel prices are spreading inflation "like a cancer" and pressed a renewable energy and electrification goal. Australia's Chris Bowen said the 1.5C target will be overshot but can be returned to, as vulnerable nations and scientists warned of accelerating warming.
• COP31 in Antalya: Keine geeignete Bühne für Klimaschutztaz.de· 5d

  In a taz comment, Annika Reiß argues Turkey, host and agenda-setting presidency of the COP31 summit in Antalya, is no suitable stage for climate talks, calling it cynical to negotiate climate justice in a country where activist Esra Işık faces years in prison for protesting a coal mine expansion and courts have overridden European Court of Human Rights decisions. Turkey ranks 163rd of 180 in Reporters Without Borders' press freedom ranking, and Reiß hopes she will still be let in to report critically from the conference, where she finds the agreed payments to the Global South far short of what is needed.
• COP : qui sont les saboteurs du climat ?bonpote.com· 5d

  Bon Pote interviews climate governance researcher Stefan C. Aykut on his new book 'La mutation climatique', timed to the COP31 opening in Antalya on 9 November 2026. Aykut says climate governance is in deep crisis, blaming de facto alliances between authoritarian powers, far-right forces, and fossil lobbies — from Russian disinformation to TotalEnergies' obstruction — and proposes coalition accords beyond the consensus rule and a fight against climate obstruction that targets economic power, not just false claims.
• Europe lowers ambitions for UN climate summit after years of pushbackft.com· 5d

  An FT special report says Europe heads into the COP31 summit in Antalya with slimmed-down goals, resisting new climate finance for developing countries while focusing on an electrification target of 35 per cent of energy by 2035. Years of pushback from oil producers, China and India, and the EU's own rollback of climate policies, have lowered its ambitions; the bloc's mandate concedes the 1.5C goal is likely to be exceeded.
• Why COP31 may be the EU’s last great climate hurrahpolitico.eu· 6d

  Politico.eu reports the EU arrives at COP31 in Antalya with a tighter negotiating stance, a single "EU village" pavilion and a first joint communications strategy, aiming to rebuild influence after isolation at COP30 and prepare for the 2028 Global Stocktake. But Politico warns that far-right gains looming in the 2026–2027 elections in Spain, France, Poland and Italy could crumble EU unity and derail that leadership bid.
• Australia's export emissions under scrutiny ahead of climate talksabc.net.au· 6d

  ABC News climate reporters Charlotte King and Romy Stephens report that Australia faces pressure over its fossil fuel exports as it prepares to lead negotiations at the UN climate conference in Türkiye, with estimated emissions from coal and gas burnt overseas almost doubling since 2005 to nearly 1,200 million tonnes for 2025-26. The article notes a High Court ruling that NSW must consider downstream emissions, activists' questions to BHP, an open letter from over 500 academics, and lawyer Harj Narulla's warning that continued expansions put Australia "squarely in the frame" under international law, while Chris Bowen defends exports as needed during buyers' energy transitions.
• Cop31 must deliver climate progress that people can see is real, host saystheguardian.com· 6d

  The Guardian previews the start of the Cop31 UN climate talks in Antalya, Turkey, where close to 190 countries gather with Australia presiding over negotiations and the host calling for progress people can see is real. Record temperatures, a record El Niño, the US's absence, and fights over climate finance and a 35% electricity target loom over the talks.
• How do you broker UN climate talks when your own country is a big coal and gas exporter? Chris Bowen is about to find outtheguardian.com· 7d

  A Guardian article examines how Chris Bowen, Australia's climate change minister, will broker Cop31 negotiations in Antalya among nearly 200 countries while his own country is the world's second largest thermal coal exporter and a top gas exporter. Climate advocates question whether a major fossil fuel producer can lead the move away from coal, oil and gas — Bowen rejects the doubt — while more than 500 scientists urged Anthony Albanese to end coal and gas approvals.
• What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?theguardian.com· 7d

  A Guardian article marking ten years of the Paris agreement argues climate action has reached an impasse: temperatures have exceeded the 1.5C threshold for two years, warming has accelerated to 0.4C a decade, the US has withdrawn under Donald Trump, and the Cop30 summit ended with a deal few loved. The paper questions whether the Cop process is fit for purpose, though experts including Johan Rockström and Juan Carlos Monterrey say Paris remains a vital moral compass, and electrification offers progress.
• Brasilien veröffentlicht erste globale Roadmap für Ausstieg aus fossilen Brennstoffeneuronews.com· 10d

  Brazil has released the world's first global roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, a voluntary plan urging countries to start planning their exit from coal, oil and gas now, with a three-phase agenda from 2028 to 2033, published as Brazil's COP30 presidency ends and passes to Türkiye and Australia for COP31 in Antalya on 9 November 2026. COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago says the agreements already exist and what matters is implementing them, while critics warn the text does not specify energy sources and a new fossil fuel agreement is considered unlikely at COP31.
• Brazil releases global roadmap for fossil fuel phaseout ahead of COP31euronews.com· 10d

  Brazil has released the world's first voluntary global roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, its final act as COP30 host, proposing a phased collective agenda from 2028 to 2033 and a plan to halt deforestation by 2030. A new fossil fuel agreement is considered unlikely at COP31 in Antalya from 9 November 2026, where critics warn a Türkiye- and Australia-backed electrification programme could mask fossil fuel expansion.
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• Exxon - Inside Climate Newsinsideclimatenews.org· 11y

  Inside Climate News presents "Exxon: The Road Not Taken," a nine-part, Pulitzer-finalist investigation built on internal Exxon documents and former employees' interviews, finding that Exxon did cutting-edge climate research decades ago, confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming by 1982, and then spent years sowing doubt about the science its own scientists had verified. The series, which spawned the #ExxonKnew hashtag and climate liability lawsuits, also reports that top executives were warned of possible catastrophe and later cut the climate research budget.