Turkey will host the Cop31 climate conference after the Australian government dropped its push to hold the event in Adelaide at the last moment despite having invested in a more than three-year campaign.

But Australia’s climate change minister, Chris Bowen, is expected to lead climate negotiations at the summit in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort city of Antalya in November 2026 under a compromise deal to resolve a standoff between the two countries.

The arrangement was negotiated in meetings between Bowen and the Turkish climate minister, Murat Kurum, at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belém. Details were still being finalised on Wednesday night local time before an announcement expected on Thursday. Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Co

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