Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum met with Australian Minister of Energy Chris Bowen and UN Climate Change Executive Director Simon Stiell.
Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum discussed COP31 preparations in an online meeting with Australian Minister of Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and UN Climate Change Executive Director Simon Stiell.
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Minister Kurum held an online meeting with Australian and UN officials within the scope of COP31 preparations.
Minister Kurum, in his post about the meeting on his social media account, noted the following:
"We had a productive online meeting with the Australian Minister of Climate Change and Energy, Mr. Chris Bowen, and the Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Mr. Simon Stiell, in which we discussed the COP31 preparations and our Action Agenda. We want to come together with all parties in a very close cooperation and contribute to the COP31 outputs with different ideas. We are working determinedly to move COP31 to a turning point where concrete results are achieved in global climate action, strong decisions are implemented and international cooperation is reciprocated on the ground."

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