Use the tabs below to explore SEI’s events by theme. All times are local Antalya time (UTC+3).
COP31 will be hosted by Türkiye from 9 to 20 November 2026, with a World Leaders’ Summit on 11–12 November. Building on COP30’s outcomes in Belém, the conference is expected to turn climate commitments into action by strengthening implementation, increasing climate finance and accelerating the transition to clean energy.
Under a Türkiye–Australia partnership, Türkiye’s Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, serves as COP31 President-designate, while Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, serves as President of Negotiations.
Time: 13:00–14:00
Location: Ukraine Pavilion
Albert Salamanca will join the panel to present findings from the SEI-led report What counts? The state of evidence of outcomes of locally led adaptation. The report takes stock of how locally led adaptation initiatives have shown they can build climate resilience, examines the divides that have prevented funders from taking up the evidence and recommends actions to boost financial support and keep building knowledge about what works in locally led adaptation.
Time: 16:45–17:30
Location: Canada Pavilion, Blue Zone
This presentation explores how boundary organizations can bridge research, policy and practice to strengthen urban adaptation to heatwaves. Using Malmö as an example, it highlights how collaboration between researchers, municipal departments and residents can connect evidence on heat exposure and social vulnerability with practical adaptation planning. Drawing on SEI’s HeatSafe project, it examines how vulnerability mapping, indoor temperature data and residents’ lived experiences can inform more targeted and equitable responses. Effective heatwave adaptation, it argues, requires more than technical solutions: it depends on sustained collaboration, trust-building, shared learning and an understanding of how social inequalities shape exposure to extreme heat and people’s capacity to cope.
Time: 13:10–14:10
Location: Marmara Antalya Hotel, Şirinyalı
How can cities strengthen climate resilience while protecting public health and addressing social inequalities? Drawing on SEI’s work with the City of Malmö, Sweden, and on urban heat adaptation in Tallinn and Pärnu, Estonia, this presentation explores approaches to understanding and reducing heat risks. The work combines social vulnerability assessments, community engagement and temperature monitoring to identify hotspots, understand who is most affected and inform urban planning. It highlights the value of cross-sectoral collaboration, equitable green infrastructure and locally grounded knowledge in advancing climate-resilient cities, with opportunities to connect urban heat adaptation with water management and wider resilience goals.
Time: 17:50–19:00
Location: Marmara Antalya Hotel, Şirinyalı
Åsa Gerger Swartling will be one of the award presenters at the New Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements Awards Ceremony 2026.
Time: 15:30–17:00
Location: Nordic Pavilion, Blue Zone
How should Nordic countries prepare for growing climate-related security risks? This interactive policy game places participants in escalating crisis scenarios involving supply chains, energy, geopolitics and migration. Working alongside policymakers and other experts, participants will explore how to respond to interconnected risks, balance immediate crisis management with longer-term preparedness and identify gaps in cross-border cooperation. Organized by Demos Helsinki, Halogen and SEI, the session explores the implications of climate change for Nordic and European security and how governments can strengthen their collective resilience.
Time: 10:00–10:50
Location: Philippine Pavilion, Blue Zone
Climate science and climate policy meet at a critical interface: science must produce actionable information, and decision-makers must be kept informed of scientific assessments. This matters especially in the Philippines, where reducing climate vulnerability depends on science-informed mitigation and adaptation policies.
Bridging the science–policy gap requires engagement on both sides. This side event brings together scientific experts and climate practitioners to discuss how meaningful collaboration can close it. Key themes include actionable climate information, science-informed policies and building capacity through science.
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: UNFCCC Pavilion
Albert Salamanca will join a panel at this UNFCCC-organized session, which aims to bridge gaps between funders and practitioners to scale up adaptation finance.
Time: 13:00–14:00
Location: Blue Zone
This session showcases island and coastal resilience in the Philippines and Indonesia through local planning, community forums and the documentary film Sa Among Isla. It highlights grassroots climate action and how local vulnerability can be built into planning.
Time: 14:15–15:30
Location: Blue Zone
Humanity cannot survive without healthy, functioning natural systems. Protecting and restoring nature and biodiversity is therefore fundamental to climate resilience, risk management and our collective future. This event will examine how climate finance can better integrate nature into investment decisions and delivery, and how nature-positive finance can move from principle to practical, investable solutions.
Time: 13:15–14:45
Location: Side Event Room Blue, Antalya EXPO Center, Blue Zone
Locally led adaptation rarely reaches the private finance it needs. Enterprises in the ‘missing middle’ are too large for microfinance, yet too small or risky for commercial investors. This side event, led by Shushilan with SEI, Bhutan Ecological Society and LI-BIRD, explores how better business models, aggregation and fit-for-purpose instruments can build a bankable private adaptation finance pipeline.
Contributions from the Centre for Finance for Sustainability, Shakti Foundation, ADA, APRACA and the Asia Regional Adaptation Investment Facility will cover multi-stakeholder action lab (MAL) bankability cases and reforms to the enabling environment. A moderated panel of investors and investees follows, with gender equity and social inclusion addressed throughout.
Time: 16:30–17:30
Location: German Climate Pavilion Stage
Digital technologies and AI can help drive transformative climate and environmental action – but only if they are developed, deployed and scaled in a responsible, just and sustainable way.
This COP31 side event, organized by the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES), will highlight governance initiatives and use cases showing how sustainable digitalization can accelerate NDC implementation, align with climate goals and support the COP31 agenda.
Time: 16:00–17:00
Location: Swedish Pavilion, Blue Zone, Hall 2/C420
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Time: 10:15–11:15
Location: Global Mutirão Auditorium, Brazil Pavilion, Blue Zone
Green industrialization cannot be delivered by countries, companies or institutions acting alone. Industrial value chains cross borders, technologies and capital move between markets, and policies and investments in one country can create opportunities and challenges for others.
Scaling the global industrial transition requires stronger partnerships across governments, industry and finance, and across regions and levels of development. This dialogue will identify where stronger partnerships can unlock progress, how successful approaches can be replicated across borders and where further collective action is needed to accelerate the transition.
Time: 15:45–16:45
Location: SDG Pavilion, Blue Zone
This session is organized by UN DESA in cooperation with members of the Global Network on Sustainable Water and Energy Solutions.
Time: 09:00–10:30
Location: Special Event Room 1 (Uzungöl)
In May 2026, the Prime Ministers of India and Sweden jointly announced the third phase of the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT). Building on progress made since 2019, it aims to strengthen international cooperation to accelerate the implementation and scale-up of low-carbon industrial solutions. This summit will bring together senior government and industry leaders to connect LeadIT’s third phase with the realities of industrial transformation on the ground.
Time: 16:45–17:45
Location: Swedish Pavilion, Blue Zone
Critical minerals are essential to the energy transition, but growing demand risks reproducing extractive patterns that increase social and environmental costs across regions. SEI and KTH are co-hosting this facilitated listening session with businesses working across mineral, technology and circular value chains to avoid such risks.
Time: 09:00–10:00
Location: Sustainable Development Goals Pavilion, Blue Zone
This session will show how critical minerals sit within an interconnected local-to-global system, in which benefits flow along global supply chains while environmental and social impacts concentrate in producing territories. It will examine how different drivers of demand – the energy transition, AI and data centres, and defence and security needs – interact with questions of national and international governance, supply and justice. More information
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion
Time: 17:00–18:30
Location: China Pavilion
Toby Gardner will share insights on advancing global climate governance and cooperation on green development.
Time: 15:00–16:30
Location: TBC
Forests are essential for the climate, biodiversity, livelihoods and economies. This event explores opportunities and pathways to implement the COP30 Presidency’s forest roadmap through global, regional and national action, including finance, international cooperation and regulatory bottlenecks.
