$15 billion China deal at COP31, plus nuclear and solar signatures

Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar signed a memorandum of understanding worth $15 billion with officials of the People's Republic of China at COP31 in Antalya, covering wind and solar power plants, electricity storage facilities and transmission lines. On the fourth day of the summit, an agreement was also signed with Canada's AtkinsRealis to carry out the feasibility study for a nuclear power plant that will consist of 6 reactors with a total capacity of 4,500 megawatts.

Signatures were also put to the financing of a 2,000-megawatt solar power plant that is planned to be built as a result of an earlier agreement with Saudi Arabia's ACWA company.

The two-day Leaders' Summit has ended. Brazil's President Lula da Silva left his mark on the second day of the summit. Meeting in the evening with representatives from Brazil's civil society organizations in the second large plenary hall named "Mediterranean", the words of Lula and other speakers were frequently interrupted by slogans. Brazil, which hosted COP30 in Belem a year ago, called on other countries by announcing a roadmap on the goal of abandoning fossil fuels in Antalya. Lula drew attention to the roadmap, saying that Brazil would be the best country in environmental protection. Lula also recounted how, at COP15 in Copenhagen, he met with former US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Wen Jiabao and how he persuaded the parties to provide $100 billion a year to developing countries.

In the morning, climate activist Greta Thunberg held a press conference together with Mohammad Usrof, founder of the Palestine Institute for Climate Strategy, Rikki Dank, who represents indigenous communities from Australia, and Celine Isimbi from Rwanda. Thunberg said, "The climate crisis is a crisis of injustice, in which those least responsible for this crisis are the ones affected," stressing who is hit hardest and fastest by this crisis; she stated that oil going from Turkey to Israel fuels genocide and called on Turkey to impose an energy embargo on Israel. Usrof said that the rains a week ago displaced 70,000 families.

Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester from the United Kingdom, also came to Antalya and presented the United Kingdom's report titled Clean Electrification Roadmap; the report was criticized by environmental organizations because it did not specify from which sources the electricity would be produced. Greenpeace will unveil a six-meter-high Trojan horse statue in front of the Konyaaltı Municipality on Friday, 13 November 2026. Climate Action Tracker will also announce on 13 November its latest work calculating what degree of warming the governments' current commitments will lead the world to.