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More than 300 executives will gather in New York for COP31
The COP31 Business Forum, hosted by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) and Bloomberg in New York, will bring together more than 300 senior executives. The business roadmap to be shaped at the meeting will be presented to the COP31 Presidency at the COP31 Business and Investment Summit in Antalya.
New York Climate Week will host one of the meetings where COP31’s business agenda will take shape. The COP31 Business Forum New York Dialogue, organized by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), the COP31 Special Envoy for the Private Sector, and Bloomberg, will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, at Bloomberg’s headquarters.
More than 300 senior executives from the international business community are expected to attend the meeting, which will be held as the opening event of the Bloomberg Green New York program. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, president of TOBB and chair of the COP31 Business Forum, and Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy on climate action and finance, will deliver opening remarks.
The guest of honor will be COP31 President and Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum. On September 21, Kurum will present the COP31 Action Agenda in detail to the global business community for the first time at the United Nations.
Business roadmap to be taken to Antalya
Ali Koç, vice chair of Koç Holding; Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency; Makhtar Diop, managing director of the International Finance Corporation; and John Denton, secretary-general of the International Chamber of Commerce, will speak on a panel titled “The Private Sector’s Response to the COP31 Action Agenda.”
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said governments sign agreements, but the business community is responsible for putting those agreements into practice. Hisarcıklıoğlu announced that they had prepared a business roadmap to implement the COP31 Action Agenda and would present the work shaped in New York to the COP31 Presidency in Antalya.
Good practices and practical recommendations from the global business community on climate action will be conveyed through official channels to COP31, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, as part of the COP31 Business Forum.
Advisory Board and working groups to meet in New York
The New York program will continue from September 22 to 25 with thematic meetings held within the framework of the COP31 Business Forum. The Advisory Board, established to evaluate the proposals that the business community will present at the COP31 Business and Investment Summit in Antalya, will hold its first meeting in New York on September 23.
Seven working groups, established to develop a common position for the global business community and comprising more than 700 members, will also hold their second in-person meetings in New York from September 22 to 25.
Co-chairs of the working groups
Murat Pınar of Sabancı Holding, Greg Jackson of Octopus Energy, Vincent Petit of Schneider Electric, Jose Manuel Entrecanales of ACCIONA and Roger Martella of GE Vernova will serve as co-chairs of the Working Group on Electrification and Energy Transition.
Perihan İnci of TÜSİAD, Jayant Acharya of JSW Steel and Katharina Beumelburg of Heidelberg Materials will serve as co-chairs of the Working Group on Industrial Decarbonization. Erman Ilıcak of Rönesans Holding, Thierry Deau of Meridiam and Amanda Hickman of Honeywell will co-chair the Working Group on Climate-Resilient Cities.
The co-chairs of the Working Group on Food Security and Agriculture will be Mehmet Tütüncü of Yıldız Holding and Diane Holdorf of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Alpaslan Çakar of the Banks Association of Türkiye, John Denton of the International Chamber of Commerce and Javier Rodriguez Soler of BBVA will serve on the Working Group on Climate Finance and Investments.
Can Dinçer of Arçelik, Clara Barby of Just Climate and Varun Sivaram of Emerald AI will co-chair the Working Group on Climate Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. The co-chairs of the Working Group on SMEs and Emerging Economies will be Esin Güral Argat of the Kütahya Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Shinta Kamdani of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Results to be announced on November 12-13
The results prepared by the working groups will be announced at the COP31 Business and Investment Summit, to be held in Antalya on November 12-13. At the summit, which will be held for the first time in COP history with one day overlapping with the Leaders’ Summit, the business community’s proposals will be presented to the heads of state and government gathering in Antalya.
The summit is expected to be the largest business event held in a COP’s Blue Zone to date. The opening meeting of the COP31 Business Forum was held in London on June 22.
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