The COP31 programme runs across twelve days from 9 to 20 November 2026, with the World Leaders Climate Action Summit on 11–12 November and each conference day dedicated to a thematic priority announced by the COP31 Presidency.
The official programme is published by the COP31 Presidency and UNFCCC. This page summarises its structure in a form that is easy to scan, then — kept clearly separate — sets out the operational requirements each kind of programme day tends to generate for agencies and delegations.
Last updated: . Official COP31 details can change — always confirm against the official sources linked on this page.
The COP31 Presidency has built the public programme around thematic days — twelve conference days, each dedicated to a priority area of climate action — running alongside the formal negotiation programme. Finance, technology and capacity building are treated as horizontal enablers that run across all themes rather than as a single day.
| Date | Programme element |
|---|---|
| 9 November 2026 | Conference opens — Food, Agriculture and Health |
| 10 November 2026 | Energy and Transport |
| 11 November 2026 | Zero Waste, alongside World Leaders Climate Action Summit day 1 |
| 12 November 2026 | Resilient Cities and Built Environment, alongside World Leaders Climate Action Summit day 2 |
| 13–20 November 2026 | Remaining thematic days, including themes announced around green transformation, climate literacy and education, science and green industrialisation |
The Presidency has confirmed the full twelve-day thematic sequence, and individual day assignments beyond the opening block continue to be published and refined. Rather than restate a schedule that may move, this page names what has been confirmed and points to the official programme for the rest. Check the official conference programme before fixing anything date-specific.
The World Leaders Climate Action Summit convenes on 11–12 November 2026, the third and fourth days of the conference, bringing together heads of state and government with leaders' roundtable sessions on themes including resilient cities, climate finance, decarbonisation, circular economy and blue climate action.
Operationally, this is the peak of the fortnight. Delegation sizes are at their largest, security and traffic management are at their tightest, media presence is heaviest, and the demand for vehicles, meeting space, interpreters and private dining is concentrated into 48 hours. Anything you need on those two days should be secured well before they arrive — this is the part of the programme where late booking genuinely fails.
The section below is our own commercial reading of the programme, not official COP31 information. It maps the kinds of activity a theme tends to attract onto the local services that support them.
Executive meetings, bilaterals and private dinners dominate. The recurring needs are meeting rooms, discreet dining, interpreters and vehicles on disposal rather than per-journey transfers. See private dining and private transfers.
Demonstration-heavy. Screens, power, technical crew, exhibition production and interpretation carry the weight — see AV rental and event production.
Larger stands and pavilions, physical exhibits, heavier build requirements and more logistics around delivery and installation — see exhibition stands.
Model-based and visual displays, panel formats and city-delegation hospitality. Furniture, branding and hosting staff matter more than heavy production.
Tasting, sampling and hospitality formats appear here more than anywhere else, which means hospitality equipment, coffee stations, catering coordination and staff — see coffee and hospitality equipment.
High volume of printed material, giveaways and public-facing collateral, with reprint demand mid-conference — see printing services.
Map your own commitments onto the programme and find the two or three days where everything happens at once. Those are the days to over-resource.
Anything tied to a specific hour — a bilateral, a press moment, a panel — needs dedicated transport and a fallback. Everything else can flex.
Meeting rooms, interpreters, vehicles with drivers and private dining rooms are the constrained resources during the Leaders Summit window.
Print, giveaways and hospitality supplies run out mid-conference. Decide in advance who reorders and from where.
Programme changes are normal. A local operations contact who already knows your scope can absorb them without a new briefing each time.
Twelve conference days, from 9 to 20 November 2026, with each day dedicated to a thematic priority alongside the formal negotiation programme.
11–12 November 2026, on the third and fourth days of the conference.
The Presidency has announced twelve thematic days. The programme opens on 9 November with Food, Agriculture and Health, followed by Energy and Transport on 10 November, Zero Waste on 11 November and Resilient Cities and Built Environment on 12 November, with further themes across the remaining days. The official conference programme is the authority on the full sequence.
Programme detail continues to be published and refined by the Presidency. Confirm any date-specific commitment against the official conference programme rather than a summary.
The Leaders Summit window on 11–12 November. Vehicles, meeting rooms, interpreters and private dining are all at peak demand across those two days.
Yes. Side events, receptions, briefings, dinners and meeting-room programmes around the official schedule are a core part of our COP31 event services.
Formal conference information — dates, registration, accreditation, programme and official logistics — is published by UNFCCC and the COP31 Türkiye Presidency. Use these sources as the authority on anything official.
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