Kinshasa, November 9th, 2026 (CPA). – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) demands the effective and immediate release of climate finance promised by industrialised nations, at the opening on Monday in Antalya, Turkey, of the 31st, United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), CPA has learnt from the organisers.
“Represented by its Minister in charge of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the New Climate Economy, Marie Nyange Ndambo, DRC intends to take a firm position throughout these two weeks of international negotiations: to move from words to action and secure fair compensation for the protection of its forests”, it is read on the website of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Faced with a mounting number of unfulfilled financial promises from the international community and the major historical emitters, Kinshasa calls for an approach that reconciles biodiversity conservation with socio-economic development.
For the Congolese delegation, the preservation of the Congo Basin forest, a major temperature regulator of the planet, must necessarily result in a direct improvement in the living conditions of local communities.
Two weeks of crucial negotiations in Antalya
Organised from November 9th to 20th by the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this world summit brings together government leaders, private sector stakeholders and civil society around a key objective: to turn political ambitions into concrete action on the field.
“Delegates from around the world gather in Antalya, Turkey, for two weeks of crucial negotiations, lively debates and worldwide collaboration, all focused on fighting the climate crisis with urgency and ambition,” the UN’s decision-making body indicates.
The Antalya agenda includes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (particularly CO₂ and CH₄), adaptation to climate impacts, the energy transition, agricultural resilience and the operationalisation of the ‘loss and damage’ mechanism. Far more than just an environmental forum, COP31 is a space for diplomatic and economic confrontation.
Resulting from the 1992 Framework Convention and building on the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to below 2 °C, and if possible 1.5 °C, the Conference of the Parties remains the forum in which DRC intends to affirm its status as a ‘solution-providing country’ in the face of the increasing frequency of extreme temperature anomalies, droughts and floods on a global scale. ACP/