UN climate chief urges delivery on finance pledges at COP31

At COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, UN climate chief Simon Stiell urged countries to fulfil existing climate finance commitments, calling full delivery essential to real-world action. He pushed for tripling adaptation finance by 2035 and scaling total climate finance to $1.3 trillion annually. An African Group proposal to make adaptation finance a standalone COP31 agenda item failed to gain consensus.