This document provides recommendations for parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to the Paris Agreement which would help to put human rights front and centre of all climate action and decision making at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, in November 2026. To do so will result in more effective and more sustainable outcomes, remedies for unavoidable harms, and reductions in historic inequalities often stemming from racist and colonial legacies, while pointing the way towards climate justice for all. A full, fast, fair and funded fossil fuel phase out as part of a just and equitable transition towards renewable energy, and a massive scale up of finance in line with the polluter pays principle, together with reform of the global financial architecture, are urgent and essential, as are open and fully participatory civic space and the protection of human rights.
