The 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) opened in Antalya on 9 November and runs until 20 November, with Australia leading the negotiations. The agenda was adopted on day one: COP31 President Murat Kurum said an “agenda fight” had been averted. Proposals to add items on tripling adaptation finance and on climate-related trade were left…
This material was prepared as a result of the 2026 EECCA Youth Climate Policy Lab*, an online training programme organised by the Climate Action Network Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (CAN EECCA) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Archaeologists are concerned not only with ancient events, dating back hundreds or thousands of years.…
The new “Electricity Now” initiative — dubbed “Electrification-35” — is shaping up to be one of the central themes at the upcoming 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya. Climate expert Alexey Kokorin, of the Nature and People Foundation and CAN EECCA’s representative to the CAN Policy Coordination Group, unpacked what lies behind the…
Two weeks of negotiations in Bonn (June 8–18, 2026) revealed the same pattern across nearly every agenda item: delegations readily agree on goals, then stall the moment the conversation turns to who will pay for them. No country openly denies the need to support vulnerable communities or workers losing their jobs as fossil fuels are…
Terms of Reference Facilitators of “Climate Dialogues” CAN EECCA is relaunching “Climate Dialogues” — a format of thematic working groups that will work on their topics throughout the year: exchanging experience, building ties between organizations across the region, and bringing their topics to the international level. We are looking for facilitators — one per working…
In May 2026, the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) was held in Baku — the first time the forum had ever come to our region. On the sidelines of the event, the SPECA Cities Forum — bringing together Almaty, Arkadag, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Ganja, and Samarkand — officially became fully operational. The idea is to turn…
[Read the full nuclear energy position paper] Amid ongoing global debate over the role of nuclear power in climate policy — and in the year marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, whose consequences hit the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region particularly hard — the Climate Action Network Eastern Europe, Caucasus and…