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Hi, I’m Molly Lempriere, Carbon Brief’s policy section editor.

As people begin to pack their bags and head to Antalya, I wanted to flag a few articles Carbon Brief has published this week that provide a primer for COP31:

For our interactive “who wants what” piece, we trawled through more than 100 submissions to provide a look at what the key issues are likely to be and where parties stand on them.

On Tuesday, both the deforestation and fossil fuel transition roadmaps were launched.

We covered all the key details in the deforestation roadmap, including the actions it sets out and the cross-border challenges nations need to tackle.

The Brazil-led roadmap to “transition away from fossil fuels” recognises that there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach, but calls on countries to assess their readiness and then pursue “tailored levers” to take action.

Finally, Carbon Brief has published its text tracker – this will pull through all the negotiating texts across the two weeks of COP31, highlighting the progress made on each agenda item based on how “clean” the texts are – namely, how much bracketed text they contain.

It’s a super handy way to see how the summit is progressing and how many agenda items are stuck in “fights” over their precise wording.

And, in case handy, here’s a reminder what happened last year at COP30 and at Bonn in June:

COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém

https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-belem

Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference

https://www.carbonbrief.org/bonn-climate-talks-key-outcomes-from-the-june-2026-un-climate-conference

We have more COP31 pieces coming next week – and you’ll be the first to know here!

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Thanks Molly - super useful. Especially interested in how the JTM shapes up and how it does or doesn’t include financial support for implementation. Busy couple of weeks ahead!

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Hi @dave, I’m also really keen to see how the just transition mechanism comes together,

I’ve spoken to various people in recent weeks about it, and I think it’s unlikely to include financial support for implementation. The pitch from civil society at least seems to be more focused on creating a resource hub that would streamline access to pre-existing sources of finance,

But given how little detail there was in the final text coming out of Bonn, lots is still really unclear. It’s going to be a hectic two weeks for negotiators trying to fill in all the gaps!

In case it’s helpful, we published a piece today setting out what we know about the mechanism: