AGAINST THE COP31 – SUMMIT OF CAPITAL!
STATEMENT
Sol Parti Türkiye – Associated Member, European Left
COP31 in Antalya, Turkey serves imperialist and corporate interests, not the climate. The statement from our member party SOL Parti calls on workers and communities to build an organised fight for climate justice against capitalism and its collaborators.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), which recently began in Antalya under the pretence of finding solutions to the climate crisis, is taking shape in line with the interests of capital and the imperialist powers responsible for the crisis. While imperialist powers and their local collaborators are opening up new areas to plunder under the name of a ‘green transition,’ they are making workers and the poor pay the price for the climate crisis and ecological destruction. Having lost their livelihoods to droughts, floods and extreme heat, these communities face illness and death due to pollution caused by industry, the energy sector and industrial agriculture.
The fact that companies such as Cengiz and Limak—which plunder Turkish forests, waters and lands—are among the sponsors and supporters of the summit reveals the true face of COP31. The AKP government, the executor of imperialist dependency and the regime of plunder in Turkey, is turning COP31 into a greenwashing operation to legitimise both corporate plunder and its own policies.
The struggle for climate justice is a struggle for independence and equality against capitalism, imperialism and their collaborators. We call on workers, farmers and everyone defending the living spaces they depend on to take part in the Climate Justice Forum taking place in Antalya from 15 to 18 November 2026, and the Great Climate Justice March on 15 November. By turning the solidarity we build at these gatherings into permanent organisations, we will expand the fight for policies in the public interest and the people’s right to have a say and make decisions across the whole country, even after the forum has ended.
Climate justice will be secured on the streets through the organised struggle of the people!
EDITORIAL NOTE
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme governing body of an international treaty, most prominently the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where member states meet—usually annually—to review progress, negotiate agreements, and make decisions to advance the treaty’s implementation.
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