COP31 will be held tomorrow and the Ministry of Environment will hold a series of forums

COP31 will be held in Turkey starting tomorrow. my country will hold a series of forums to simultaneously update the latest information. Environment Minister Peng Qiming will personally preside over one of the "AI for Climate, Climate for AI" forums. (File photo)

COP31 will be held tomorrow, and the Ministry of Environment will simultaneously launch the "Climate Pulse: Taiwan Counterparts" series of forums. Each forum will specially arrange on-site COP31 bulletins, and the latest developments will be transmitted back from Turkey, so that the Chinese people can grasp the latest information and transform international climate issues into opportunities for domestic policy and industrial transformation.

The 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP31) in 2026 will be held in Antalya, Turkey from the 9th to the 20th. The Ministry of Environment stated that this year's COP31 will focus on "moving from commitments to implementation" to promote the implementation of nationally determined contributions by countries and propose quantitative goals for 2035, including a global electrification rate of 35%; halving the growth of global waste generation; and reducing the energy consumption intensity of the building sector by at least 25%.

Since our country is not a member of the United Nations, we are unable to participate. In order to keep abreast of the latest trends in international climate change issues, the Ministry of Environment simultaneously held online forums and physical exchange activities during the conference to connect domestic and foreign industry, government, academia, and youth to demonstrate our country's active participation in global climate action and its determination to be net-zero. The series of forums will discuss air pollution reduction and health and mutual benefit governance, national greenery and urban forest resilience, circular economy zero-waste models, international carbon pricing trends, and sustainable financial financing paths in terms of policy and industry docking.

In terms of social transformation and generational inheritance, the forum will also focus on just transformation and cross-generational public participation. It will showcase climate-resilient campus practices, play 2050 net-zero short videos of high-achieving high school students participating in online courses, and share international initiative experiences with representatives of youth overseas dream-realization. Regarding forward-looking technology and international markets, Minister Peng Qiming will personally preside over the "AI for Climate, Climate for AI" forum, and organize the "Eurasian Carbon Removal (CDR) Strategy" forum and the "Paris Agreement Article 6" Dialogue on "Global Carbon Market".

In order to grasp the real-time information of the COP31 venue, the Ministry of Environment stated that a live briefing unit will be arranged at the beginning of each forum, and the event held in Taiwan this time will be bilingual in Chinese and English and will also be broadcast live.