Antalya, Türkiye – The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) will be in Antalya, Türkiye, from November 7–23, 2026, for COP31, bringing women leaders, Indigenous voices, frontline leadership, and climate justice solutions into the UN climate negotiations.

Learn more about the WECAN COP31 delegates and events here: https://www.wecaninternational.org/cop31

Building upon years of engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, WECAN will advocate for a Just Transition and a fair and fast fossil fuel phaseout, gender-responsive climate policy, Indigenous rights and leadership, Rights of Nature, robust and just climate finance, forest protection, and implementation that addresses the growing reality of 1.5°C overshoot. WECAN will call for the urgent need to address the lack of political will driving the continued fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, while elevating the leadership of women in all their diversity and climate solutions from frontline communities.

WECAN’s COP31 engagement will include advancing work around the Gender Action Plan, Just Transition Mechanism, Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, Fossil Fuel Treaty, Rights of Nature, climate finance, forest protection, and challenging Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and other false market solutions, alongside tracking key government positions and developments across the negotiations and broader COP31 agenda.

MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES

WECAN’s women delegation will be available during COP31 for interviews and commentary on:

• Women-led climate solutions and frontline leadership

• Gender-responsive climate policy and the Gender Action Plan

• Indigenous rights and leadership

• Just Transition and the phase-out of fossil fuels

• Fossil Fuel Treaty and the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

• Rights of Nature and legal approaches to protecting ecosystems

• Climate finance and financing women- and community-led solutions

• Forest protection, biodiversity, and women forest defenders

• The political urgency of keeping 1.5°C within reach

Please see below for a list of the WECAN COP31 delegates. If you are interested in interviewing members of the delegation, please email ivory@wecaninternational.org:

• Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/United States [Language: ENGLISH]

• Puyr Tembé (Tembé), Former First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and Co-founder of National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil [Language: PORTUGUESE]

• Olivia Bisa Tirko (Chapra), President of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH), Peru [Language: SPANISH]

• Jozileia Kaingang (Kaingang), Executive Director, National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil [Language: PORTUGUESE]

• Watatakalu Yawalapiti (Xingu), Woman Leader of the Yawalapiti, Member of the Women's Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Territory - (MMTIX), Director of Territorial Ethnodevelopment of ATIX and Coordinator of Political Articulation of the National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil [Language: PORTUGUESE]

• Julia Horinek (Ponca Nation), WECAN Coordinator of the Ponca Earthen Lodge Project, the Global North Organizer for the Indigenous Council for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), and the Indigenous Programs Director for Movement Rights, Turtle Island/United States [Language: ENGLISH]

• Lucimara Patté (Xokleng), Co-founder of the National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA) and Technical Advisor of SESAI, Brazil [Language: PORTUGUESE]

• Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Governing Council of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), and Steering Committee for the Fossil Fuel Treaty, Turtle Island/USA​ [Language: ENGLISH]

• Ivory Vogt, Policy and Communications Manager of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Republic of Palau [Language: ENGLISH]

• Katherine Quaid (Confederated Tribes of Umatilla), Strategic Advisor for Policy and Communications of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA [Language: ENGLISH]

Below are full event details for the WECAN formal UN side event and press conferences. Speaker and event details can be found on our website here. Recordings can be made available following the events. If you have any questions, please reach out to the media contact above. Please also follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook for ongoing updates.

WECAN Events at COP31:

Formal UN Side Event | Women Leading Climate Solutions on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

Monday, November 16

11:30 - 13:00  (TRT)

Side Event Room 9 – Safranbolu, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP31

Press Conference | Women Leading a Fossil Fuel Phaseout and Just Transition

Monday, November 16

17:30-18:00  (TRT)

Press Conference Room “Yunus Emre”, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP31

Press Conference | Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis

Thursday, November 17

17:30 - 18:00  (TRT)

Press Conference Room “Yunus Emre”, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP31

Pavilion Event | Frontline Women’s Health in the Climate Crisis

Wednesday, November 18

10:30 - 11:30 (TRT)

World Health Organization (WHO) Pavilion, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP31

Press Conference | Women Protecting and Restoring Forests as a Climate Solution

Wednesday, November 18

14:00-14:30 (TRT)

Press Conference Room “Yunus Emre”, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP31