Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP31 climate summit

COP31’s central task is for nearly 200 countries to negotiate the wording of climate agreements, with more than 100 items under discussion. A searchable text tracker records each agenda topic, its negotiation status and links to the relevant documents, helping readers follow talks that take place largely behind closed doors.

Turkey is hosting the summit, while Australia is jointly leading negotiations. They plan to produce an overarching political “cover text” that could address the prospect of temporarily exceeding the 1.5C warming limit and Turkey’s proposed target for electricity to provide 35% of global final energy by 2035. Key issues include adaptation, emissions cuts and a just transition mechanism; the African group has also sought agenda items on trade tariffs, adaptation finance and the Green Climate Fund. Before the summit opened, the tracker counted 104 substantive agenda items, excluding procedural matters.