Media Briefing: United Nations Climate Change Conference SB 64

Brussels, 4 June 2026 As the UN Climate Convention’s member states meet in Bonn for the June Climate Meetings (SB 64) from 8 to 18 June 2026, the world is watching to see how countries respond to an increasingly unstable geopolitical context marked by economic uncertainty, trade tensions, escalating climate impacts and a fossil fuel crisis. The UN climate machine is now moving decisively into an implementation era, and these negotiations will shape the political landing zones for COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, signalling whether governments are prepared to turn previous commitments into credible action.

The road to Antalya goes through Bonn

With SB 64 taking place as the mid-point between COP30 in Belem and the upcoming COP31, the global community is looking to major economies, the EU, and influential countries from the Global South, to demonstrate political resolve and strategic consistency within the framework of the Paris Agreement. Discussions in Bonn will therefore shape the political space available at COP31 to address gaps in mitigation action, adaptation and climate finance, while also determining how the outcomes of the Global Stock Take (GST) are translated into concrete policy frameworks.

In Bonn, critical discussions will also take place on how to advance COP30’s key outcome on Just Transition, primarily by translating the COP30 mandate for establishing a mechanism into concrete terms, to set up the Belém Antalya Mechanism (BAM) at COP31. The mechanism will provide a framework for guiding how countries can incorporate just transition considerations in their national climate actions on adaptation and transitioning away from fossil fuels. It will help shape just transition partnerships, climate finance delivery and equitable implementation pathways in the years ahead. The EU, as a crucial actor in international diplomacy, must align its domestic and external policies with this framework.

This mechanism is also required for accelerating the transitioning away from fossil fuels. On this, the EU urgently needs to develop its own phase out plans, whilst the meeting in Bonn provides a key platform to advance the COP30 mandate for developing a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels. This process, led by the Brazilian presidency, can draw inspiration from the recent conference in Santa Marta, and will include discussing with countries the scope of actions to be agreed at COP31.

Public finance, not charity

The Bonn negotiations will further seek to enhance the operationalisation of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) as well as progress on the “Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3 Trillion” agreed at COP29. While governments agreed last year to at least triple adaptation finance (by 2035), concerns remain that this target falls far short of actual needs and lacks a clear baseline against which progress can be measured. Scrutiny will intensify on the increasing reliance on private finance to fill major finance gaps, and the shortfall in delivery of previously agreed climate finance commitments. As climate impacts intensify, adaptation must be understood not as charity, but as essential to wellbeing, survival, and resilient development and to be provided based on legal obligations.

Discussions are also expected to increasingly emphasise the links between adaptation and just transition, recognising that resilient, fossil-free development pathways must be pursued together rather than in siloes. Delivering a systemic shift in financial flows away from fossil fuels and towards equitable, climate-resilient development remains essential. Updated NDCs must be supported by public, grant-based climate finance and locally-led just transition initiatives that enable countries to realise both unconditional and conditional commitments.

United for COP31: Turkish and Australian civil society urge COP Presidents to take bold steps to transition away from fossil Fuels

While intersessional climate negotiations are taking place in Bonn, a diverse coalition of civil society organisations representing Türkiye and Australia will be urging the COP31 President-Designate and the President Designate of Negotiations to unite to transition away from fossil fuels

The cooperation between Türkiye and Australia, brings a historic opportunity to make international progress in the transition away from fossil fuels, while walking the talk domestically and paving the way to a clean future within their respective borders. By combining the diplomatic reach of both host nations with the long-standing climate leadership of the Pacific, COP31 should champion the implementation era required to keep the 1.5°C goal alive.

CAN Europe Side Event

Challenges and Opportunities towards COP 31: Addressing Investor State Dispute Settlement

When: 13/06/26, 10:30 – 11:45
Where: Kaminzimmer
Organised by: CAN Europe, CAN Latin America, Friends of the Earth International & Global Justice Now

Spokespeople Available for Interview

Sven Harmeling, Head of Climate, CAN Europe – overall EU politics, adaptation, climate finance.

James Trinder, International Climate Policy Coordinator – International climate diplomacy, mitigation, fossil-fuel phase-out, just transition.

Özlem Katısöz, Senior Climate & Energy Policy Coordinator For Türkiye – Türkiye, COP 31 hosting, just transition

Leah Sullivan, Trade & Climate Policy Coordinator – trade, ISDS

Additional spokespeople available through CAN Europe member organisations on topics including: climate finance, just transition, adaptation, gender, and loss and damage.