Oxfam at COP 31
9–20 November 2026
Antalya, Türkiye
The climate crisis is fundamentally a crisis of inequality. The countries, corporations, and people who have contributed most to global heating have the greatest responsibility and capacity to act, while people who have done the least to cause the crisis are already losing lives, homes and livelihoods.
At COP 31, Oxfam is calling for climate action rooted in justice, equity, and accountability. Governments must keep 1.5°C within reach, make the richest polluters pay their fair share, deliver the finance communities need to adapt to worsening climate impacts, address loss and damage, and ensure the transition away from fossil fuels works for people rather than deepening existing inequalities.
Why COP 31 Matters
COP 31 is a critical moment for governments to turn climate promises into action.
The UN climate negotiations remain one of the few global spaces where countries negotiate collective action under a legally binding climate agreement, and where principles of equity and differentiated responsibility form part of the framework for action. Oxfam's engagement therefore forms part of a wider, year-round strategy to influence governments, amplify the leadership of frontline communities and movements, and push for climate justice.
COP 31 will take place in Antalya from 9–20 November 2026. Türkiye is hosting the conference and leading the COP 31 Presidency process, while Australia is leading negotiations, with Pacific countries playing an important role in the wider Presidency partnership.
For Oxfam, the central question is straightforward: will those who have polluted the most, profited the most and continue to emit the most finally do their fair share?
What Oxfam Wants from COP 31
Climate change does not affect everyone equally. Oxfam is calling for climate decisions that recognise responsibility and fair shares. The richest countries, corporations and individuals are disproportionately responsible for historical and current emissions, while communities living in poverty are being hit first and hardest.
Climate ambition must therefore address both emissions and inequality, with the countries and people that have the greatest responsibility and capacity acting first and fastest.
Finance is essential to enable countries to cut emissions, adapt to climate impacts, respond to loss and damage and deliver a just transition.
At COP 31, Oxfam will push rich countries to show how they will deliver their climate-finance obligations, filling the UN climate funds, and including progress towards the $300 billion annual climate-finance goal, and to commit to tripling grant-based adaptation finance to at least $120 billion a year. Oxfam is also calling for stronger public, grant-based finance instead of approaches that increase the debt burden of climate-vulnerable countries.
Governments have options for raising the resources needed. Oxfam is advocating for progressive taxation of extreme wealth, fossil-fuel profits, luxury emissions like private jets and other polluting sectors so that those most responsible for the climate crisis contribute more towards solving it.
Governments must take urgent action to reduce the disproportionate wealth, power and emissions of the world's super-rich. Rich countries must also be held accountable for the lack of progress in meeting their climate finance commitments and deliver adequate funding to address the needs of countries most impacted by the climate crisis. Oxfam is calling for stronger transparency and accountability under the UNFCCC, including annual reporting on what wealthy countries have delivered against their climate finance pledges.
For millions of people, climate change is not a future threat. Communities are already adapting to floods, droughts, cyclones, heatwaves and other worsening impacts.
Oxfam will push for greater quantity and quality of adaptation finance, accessible to countries and communities on the climate frontlines, alongside progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation and the Belém Adaptation Indicators. COP 31 is also an important stepping stone towards COP 32, where adaptation is expected to be a major focus.
Moving away from fossil fuels must not reproduce the inequalities of today's economy.
Oxfam is advocating for the operationalization of the Just Transition Mechanism agreed at COP 30 that can turn international commitments into practical support, with public finance, social protection and meaningful decision-making roles for workers, women, Indigenous Peoples, young people and frontline communities. Climate action will only succeed if the transition is fair, democratic and properly financed.
Communities that contributed least to climate breakdown are already experiencing irreversible losses.
Oxfam is calling for substantial finance for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, new and additional resources from the Global North, direct community access and rapid disbursement, adequate resources for the Santiago Network, and a stronger place for loss and damage within the UN climate negotiations.
Oxfam Events at COP 31
Oxfam colleagues, partners, activists and allies will take part in events, discussions, advocacy and public campaigning throughout the two weeks of COP31. Oxfam is also coordinating events across the Blue Zone and wider COP spaces, with the full programme continuing to be updated as event details are confirmed.
Climate Justice and Inequality
Events and discussions will explore how extreme inequality drives climate breakdown and why making the richest polluters pay is essential for financing climate action.
Disaster Divide
The Disaster Divide report, Oxfam’s latest annual climate inequality research launched ahead of COP, provides an important evidence base for this work.
Our Ongoing Campaign
Climate breakdown is hitting people who have done the least to cause it, while some of the world's richest people and biggest polluters continue to produce vastly disproportionate emissions.
Oxfam's Make Rich Polluters Pay campaign calls for those most responsible for the climate crisis to contribute their fair share towards the solutions.
Make Rich Polluters Pay
At COP 31, it will be Oxfam's priority public campaign, linking climate inequality with demands for fair taxation, climate finance and accountability.
At COP 30, Oxfam and activist partners delivered a million-signature Make Rich Polluters Pay petition to Brazil's climate minister. At COP 29, Oxfam and activists used campaign actions including a “Make Rich Polluters Pay” game-show action and the large-scale “Pay Up!” mobilisation in Baku to press governments for an ambitious climate-finance agreement.
Oxfam in Türkiye
COP 31 being hosted in Türkiye presents a unique opportunity to showcase the grassroots women’s leadership already responding to the climate crisis and building resilience in their communities throughout the country. Oxfam KEDV (Türkiye) is playing a central role in connecting global climate discussions with women’s knowledge and expertise. Drawing on decades of experience supporting women's leadership, locally-led adaptation and women-led community resilience, Oxfam KEDV works alongside women’s cooperatives and groups to advance life-centered solutions to climate challenges.
At COP 31, Oxfam is helping to amplify the voices and experiences of women and frontline communities in Türkiye, showcasing practical approaches to care, resilience, adaptation and community-led climate action. Through events, partnerships and advocacy, Oxfam KEDV will highlight why those most affected by the climate crisis, women whose unpaid care work is sustaining the earth, must be at the centre of the decisions and solutions that shape our collective future.
Meet Oxfam at COP 31
Media inquiries: Cass Hebron | cass.hebron@oxfam.org
General inquiries on Oxfam's engagement at COP: Sian Jones | sian.jones@oxfam.org
Oxfam Global Policy and Advocacy Lead: Nafkote Dabi | nafkote.dabi@oxfam.org
Oxfam at Previous COPs
Oxfam has engaged in the UN climate negotiations over many years, combining policy advocacy with public campaigning, research and support for activists, partners and frontline communities.
Oxfam advocated on climate finance, inequality, adaptation and a just transition, organized and supported events across COP spaces and worked with activists and partners. The Make Rich Polluters Pay petition reached a major milestone when Oxfam and partners delivered one million signatures to Brazil's climate minister.
Explore Oxfam at COP 30
With climate finance at the centre of COP 29, Oxfam pushed rich countries to provide adequate public finance for countries facing the climate crisis. Campaign actions included the “Pay Up!” mobilisation and Make Rich Polluters Pay actions. Oxfam later criticized the agreed $300 billion climate-finance goal as deeply inadequate for the needs of the Global South.
Explore Oxfam at COP 29
Oxfam advocated for stronger action on fossil fuels, climate finance, inequality and loss and damage. Its COP 28 work included calls for more inclusive and gender-responsive approaches to the new Loss and Damage Fund, while its response to the final COP outcome highlighted the failure to provide adequate support for poorer countries' transition and climate needs.