While on Wednesday disputes about adaptation finance already surfaced, during the fifth day of the UN Climate Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye, participants continued to disagree over support for vulnerable countries and international mitigation efforts. Although Friday’s (November 13) meetings led to new funding initiatives, negotiations failed to mobilise sufficient resources, while talks over responsibilities and the future direction of key climate programmes seem to have reached an impasse.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres used his final COP press conference as Secretary-General to call for fundamental reforms to the international financial system, arguing that climate disasters were reversing decades of development…