COP31 began in Antalya: Call for global climate action from Minister Kurum

Turkey opened the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, where Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum called for concrete global climate action in his General Assembly address. Kurum warned that "delay is one of the most expensive bills of climate action," urging delegates to turn words into results, and framed the conference around three principles: dialogue, consensus and action. The summit's opening matters as a test of whether governments can convert pledges into implementable commitments. What to watch next: whether negotiators translate the dialogue-consensus-action framework into binding outcomes before the conference closes.