This document provides recommendations for parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to the Paris Agreement which would help 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; reductions in historic inequalities often stemming from racist and colonial legacies; and will point 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 in all sectors, and a massive scale up of climate finance in line with the polluter pays principle, together with reform of the global financial architecture, are urgent and essential. It also highlights the important work of environmental human rights defenders and challenges to open civic space in Türkiye, Australia and Fiji which all have important roles in this year’s negotiations. It is an update of the advocacy briefing published in May 2026 ahead of the June Climate Conference held in Bonn, Germany.
This document was updated on 24 September 2026.