India seeks a climate finance work programme at the Antalya conference

3 November 2026

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav has set out in New Delhi what India will press for at COP31, the thirty-first Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The meeting is at Antalya in Turkiye from 9 to 20 November 2026.
India's first ask is a decision to start the Climate Finance Work Programme, with finance from developed countries that is predictable, mostly public and concessional and does not deepen the debt of poorer countries.
On mitigation and the Global Stocktake, India wants the process kept in the hands of the parties and free of penalties, with no targets imposed from above.
It wants indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation to stay voluntary and never become a condition for getting finance, and it wants more money for adaptation.
India holds that developed countries should fund technology transfer and that barriers of cost, intellectual property and trade must be dealt with.
It also wants the Just Transition Work Programme continued through a party-driven mechanism, and participation in carbon markets left voluntary.
Side events include LeadIT 3.0 with Sweden.