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10%
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World leaders will take the stage at COP31 in Turkiye on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) but some prominent names are missing from this year’s annual UN climate summit even as global warming intensifies.
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warming → take → summit
The two-week conference kicked off earlier this week in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, with governments under pressure to tackle the climate crisis after a year of heatwaves in Europe, deadly floods in Nepal and major wildfires in Indonesia.
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conference → kick → Indonesia
Dozens of leaders will speak during the “high-level segment” taking place on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) and Thursday (November 12, 2026), including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian.
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Dozens → speak → Erdogan
But observers have pointed to the absence of some big names, with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham the only leader from a G7 country scheduled to address the summit.
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observers → point → summit
While European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is coming to Antalya, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are skipping the event.
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Macron → come → event
“It is a shame that some of the bigger European leaders aren’t coming.
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some → come → leaders
We need Europe to be showing up strongly at this COP,” Cosima Cassel, a climate diplomacy expert at think-tank E3G, told AFP.
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Cassel → need → AFP
Wopke Hoekstra, the EU’s top climate official, said the absences were “not completely atypical” as leaders may have “practical” reasons for not being able to attend a summit.
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leaders → say → summit
But he also told reporters in Brussels that “expectations are not necessarily high” for this climate conference.
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expectations → tell → conference
The French government said Mr. Macron would be absent because November 11 is World War I Armistice Day and the President will attend an EU summit in Ireland on Thursday (November 12, 2026).
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President → say → Thursday
“If top leaders want influence over where the global (energy) transition is going, showing up is a pretty good place to start,” said Chiara Martinelli, director of Climate Action Network Europe.
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Martinelli → want → Europe
“I am afraid that Ursula von der Leyen will be lonely on the stage while the leaders of the biggest EU economies are a no-show,” Martinelli said.
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Martinelli → say → economies
‘We have Lula’
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We → have → Lula
Unsurprisingly, U.S. President Donald Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement and has not sent officials to climate talks since his re-election in 2024, is not attending the summit.
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who → pull → summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who rarely attends COPs, will be represented by Vice President Han Zheng.
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who → attend → Zheng
The United States and China are the world’s top economies and biggest emitters of planet-heating emissions, making their presence at climate talks crucial to the process.
“But we have Lula,” Mr. Cassel said.
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Cassel → heat → Lula
Climate campaigners breathed a huge sigh of relief when Mr. Lula, who has championed cutting deforestation rates, defeated right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro in last month’s Brazilian presidential election.
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who → breathe → election
COP31 host Turkiye is championing a voluntary initiative to accelerate the electrification of transport, buildings and industry, with a target of raising electricity’s share of global energy consumption to 35% by 2035.
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Turkiye → champion → 2035
The EU has stressed that electrification must be “clean”, which could spark debate over the role of oil, gas and coal in the Turkish proposal.
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which → stress → proposal
Since agreeing in 2023 for the first time to transition away from fossil fuels — the main driver of climate change — nations have struggled to advance that goal at the annual COP conferences.
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nations → agree → conferences
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