Daily COP31 Media Advisory – November 9 2026

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November 9, 2026

Al Johnson-Kurts, Oil Change International (in Antalya) – [email protected] / +1 802 595 3086

Khaliel Moses, Oil Change International (in Antalya) – [email protected] / +27 68 514 4761

Oil Change International COP30 Media Advisory – November 9, 2006

Antalya, Türkiye – As governments gather today for the COP31 United Nations climate negotiations in Antalya, Türkiye, Oil Change International (OCI) calls on world leaders to turn their commitment to transition away from fossil fuels into concrete, publicly funded, government-led plans that protect people from worsening climate disasters, rising energy and food costs, and geopolitical instability.

Shady Khalil, Global Policy Senior Strategist, Oil Change International, said: 

“We know what needs to happen. Governments must stop fossil fuel expansion, plan a fair phaseout of existing production, and invest public money in renewable energy and economic diversification. Wealthy countries must move first and fastest and provide the finance needed to make this transition possible everywhere.”

Press conferences:

• 09:00 Press Conference: Climate reparations | Press Room 2 | Online
  • Speakers from Latin America and the Caribbean will address climate reparations as a key pillar of climate action for the global agenda.
• 11:00 Press Conference: Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice | Press Room 2  | Online
  • Speakers from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) will unpack the major fights brewing within the negotiation rooms and highlight the key issues that the Global South will raise and advocate for during the two weeks of climate negotiations. The big question is: can COP31 really be the ‘implementation COP’ if climate finance continues to be a contentious issue? Climate finance has been put front and center with three new agenda items that are now being actively blocked by Global North countries. 
• 11:30 Press Conference: Climate Action Network | Press Room 2 | Online
  • Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of more than 2,500 civil society organisations in over 150 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social justice. Climate Action Network will outline civil society’s expectations as COP31 opens, highlighting the political decisions governments must take to deliver climate justice. 
  • Topics and speakers:
    • The global context and COP31: Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network International
    • Just Transition: Kuda Manjojo, Just Transition Advisor, Power Shift Africa
    • Adaptation, and Loss and Damage: Harjeet Singh, Founding Director, Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, and Global Convenor, Fill The Fund campaign
    • Climate Finance: Bertha Argueta, Climate Justice Advocacy and Policy Officer, Eurodad
    • Energy and Transition Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF): Shady Khalil, Senior Global Policy Strategist, Oil Change International
• 14:30 Press Conference: From Ambition to Implementation: Pacific COP31 Envoys’ Expectations for Antalya | Press Room 1 | Online
  • Ministers from the Pacific region will speak about their expectations for the negotiations.
• 17:00 Press Conference: High Ambition Coalition | Press Room 1 | Online 
  • The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) is a diverse and informal coalition of developed and developing countries committed to advancing progressive and ambitious climate action. The HAC was established in 2015 by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and succeeded in securing the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious provisions, including language to pursue efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ministers from the Coalition will speak about their expectations for the negotiations.

Actions:

• 15:00 Freedom of Speech | Action Location 2, main walkway outside Info Hub, Zone B, Blue Zone
• 16:30 Food sovereignty and Agroecology | Action Location 3 – food area
• 18:00 Fossil of the Day announcement | Action Location 1B, main plaza near exit, Blue Zone

Events:

• 11:00 Transition Away from Fossil Fuels | Australia Pavilion, Zone B, Blue Zone
  • Hosted by Turkiye & Australia CSO networks.
• 15:00 Panel on Operationalizing Fairness: Just Transition, Equity, Science and Finance | Side Event Room 4 – AŞIK VEYSEL
  • Hosted by Third World Network, Oxfam International, War on Want and the University of Warwick.

Reach out to us to connect with spokespeople to cover:

• Fair Fossil fuel phaseout: Fossil fuel phaseout roadmaps, Global North countries’ fossil fuel expansion, Nationally Determined Contributions, diplomacy and negotiations 
• Financing a just transition: Baku to Belém roadmap, NCQG, Article 2.1(c), fossil fuel subsidies and finance, financial architecture reform, just transition 
• Fossil Fuel Industry: Big Oil Companies, Industry pledges, International Energy Agency / World Energy Outlook, Carbon Capture, 1.5ºC scenarios
• United States: Trump, U.S. Congress, U.S. finance and subsidies, false solutions and CCS, LNG, certified gas, Methane
• Africa: Resistance to oil and gas in Africa, oil and gas expansion in Africa
• Asia: Japan’s energy strategy, Japan’s gas and fossil fuel-based technologies (ammonia/hydrogen co-firing, CCS) expansion in Asia

OCI has spokespeople available on the ground at COP31 for interviews and press panels, as well as remote spokespeople available in alternative timezones for those journalists not in attendance in Antalya.

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