La PPDC en la COP31: Impulsando la justicia climática y el derecho a la ciudad

9-20 de noviembre de 2026 | Antalya, Turquía

La COP31 se celebra en el contexto de la aplicación del Acuerdo de París y del seguimiento del primer Balance Global. La Agenda de Acción de la Presidencia de la COP31 identifica diez temas prioritarios estructurados en torno a los seis pilares de la Agenda Global de Acción Climática, con el fin de garantizar la continuidad y la coherencia con los resultados del primer Balance Global.

Varios de estos debates son especialmente relevantes para la labor del GPR2C y sus miembros:

• Vivienda y condiciones de vida adecuadas: Los efectos del cambio climático, como el calor extremo, las inundaciones y los desplazamientos, amenazan la seguridad y la habitabilidad de las viviendas, especialmente en los asentamientos informales y entre las comunidades de bajos ingresos.
• Ciudades y territorios resilientes al clima: La adaptación urbana debe garantizar el acceso a los servicios públicos esenciales, a las infraestructuras y a entornos seguros y saludables, dando prioridad a las comunidades más expuestas a los riesgos climáticos.
• Transición justa y trabajo digno: Los trabajadores de la economía informal, incluidos los recolectores de residuos y otros trabajadores esenciales, deben ser reconocidos e incluidos en las políticas climáticas, la financiación y la toma de decisiones.
• Género y justicia social: La acción climática debe abordar las desigualdades estructurales y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres, especialmente en el trabajo de cuidados, la organización comunitaria y la resiliencia local.
• Financiación climática e inversión pública: Los recursos deben llegar a los gobiernos locales y a las comunidades, apoyando soluciones basadas en los derechos, participativas y sujetas a rendición de cuentas pública.

A través de la participación de sus miembros, la Plataforma pretende poner de relieve estas dimensiones interrelacionadas y reforzar los vínculos entre los compromisos climáticos globales y la acción local.

Los miembros de la Plataforma Global por el Derecho a la Ciudad participarán en la COP31 a través de diversos eventos, debates, actividades de promoción e iniciativas de intercambio de conocimientos.

Invitamos a todos los miembros de la GPR2C a compartir su participación, actividades, eventos y aportaciones a la COP31 para que podamos ayudar a dar mayor visibilidad a su trabajo y sus perspectivas. Esta página se actualizará periódicamente durante la COP31 para mostrar la diversidad de iniciativas, experiencias y voces de la Plataforma Global por el Derecho a la Ciudad. ¡Enviadnos vuestras noticias, recursos e información sobre eventos para que podamos incluirlos!

10 Noviembre 2026

From the grassroots to the global level: accelerating locally-led adaptation in national and sub-national plans and policy strategies (De las bases al ámbito global: acelerar la adaptación impulsada a nivel local en los planes y estrategias políticas nacionales y subnacionales)

Climate Resilience for Housing Justice(Resiliencia climática para la justicia en la vivienda)

Occupational Health and Safety in a Just Transition: Voices from the Informal Sector (Salud y seguridad en el trabajo en una transición justa: voces del sector informal)

11 Noviembre 2026

Zero Waste, Healthy Cities and Healthy Workers: Advancing Climate and Health Justice in the Global South (Cero residuos, ciudades saludables y trabajadores saludables: promover la justicia climática y sanitaria en el Sur Global)

Launch of the Locally Led Adaptation Plan to Accelerate Solutions (LLA PAS) (Presentación del Plan de Adaptación Liderado Localmente para Acelerar las Soluciones (LLA PAS))

Who Holds the Knowledge? Rethinking Equity in North-South Research Partnerships for Climate and Energy Transitions (¿Quién posee el conocimiento? Repensar la equidad en las alianzas de investigación Norte-Sur para las transiciones climáticas y energéticas)

Why Climate Solutions Fail Without Women and Girls (Por qué fracasan las soluciones climáticas sin las mujeres y las niñas)

Reparations and Demilitarization: Peoples’ Demands for a Just and Equitable Transition (Reparaciones y desmilitarización: las demandas de los pueblos para una transición justa y equitativa)

– Formato: rueda de prensa

Zero Waste, Healthy Planet: Circularity without Harm (Cero residuos, planeta sano: circularidad sin daños)

Hora: 17:00–18:00 (hora de Antalya, UTC+3)

Lugar: por confirmar

12 Noviembre 2026

High-Level Dialogue: Urban Resilience, Adaptation and Climate Action (Diálogo de alto nivel: Resiliencia urbana, adaptación y acción climática)

Science and Research for Urban Climate Action: Closing the Evidence Gap for Informal Settlements (Ciencia e investigación para la acción climática urbana: subsanar la falta de datos sobre los asentamientos informales)

Left out in the heat? Rethinking urban heat strategies for vulnerable groups (¿Dejados de lado ante el calor? Repensar las estrategias contra el calor urbano para los grupos vulnerables)

Hora: 15:30–16:30 (hora de Antalya, UTC+3)

Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change (Reunión ministerial sobre urbanización y cambio climático)

– Hora: Por confirmar

13 Noviembre 2026

Delivering NDC 3.0 through Urban Transformation: A One UN Offer for Cities and Regions

• Time: 16:45–18:15 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Side Event Room 8 – Bergama
• Organisers: UN-Habitat and United Nations University (UNU), with support from UNDP, UNEP, UNDRR, UNCTAD, UNIDO and WTO.

This official One UN side event will present the UN system’s collective offer to support Member States, cities and regions in closing the NDC 3.0 implementation gap through systemic urban transformation. It will address circular and zero-waste approaches, climate-just governance and finance, and the challenges of translating urban climate commitments into action. The event will also launch new reports and tools on urban content in NDCs, climate justice and loss and damage in informal settlements.

Community-Led Urban Water Resilience: Bridging Informal Settlements, Local Governance and Climate Adaptation Implementation

– Time: To be confirmed
– Location: COP31 Water for Climate Pavilion
– SDI speaker: Yvonne Nangoma Halwindi, Zambia Homeless and Poor People’s Federation.

This session will explore how community-led approaches can strengthen water resilience in informal settlements, connecting local governance and community priorities with the implementation of climate adaptation strategies.

14 Noviembre 2026

From Commitment to Implementation: Scaling Zero Waste for Climate and Clean Air

• Time: 11:30–13:00 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Side Event Room 9 – Safranbolu
• Organisers: Instituto Pólis, GAYO, ESDO and GAIA.

Reducing methane and black carbon emissions from the waste sector is essential for near-term climate action, clean air and public health. This event will examine how integrated zero-waste approaches can address interconnected challenges, including methane emissions from landfills and dumpsites and black carbon from open waste burning and landfill fires.

Housing Justice is Climate Justice: Local Pathways to Safe Homes for the Most Exposed

• Time: 15:00–17:00 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments (GTF/UCLG/LGMA) Pavilion
• Organisers: Build Change, Cities Alliance, Habitat for Humanity, IIED and Slum Dwellers International.
• Participation: Rodrigo Iacovini, Polis Institute and Modesta Mtambalika Kaphala, Federation of Rural and Urban Poor (FEDURP), Malawi.

More than one billion people live in informal and self-built homes highly exposed to climate risks, yet housing programmes and climate finance rarely reach them. Drawing on community-led data, savings and incremental finance, and partnerships with local governments, this roundtable will explore how national programmes and climate funds can reach the most exposed households, and how local governments can lead. It will position safe and resilient housing as a priority for climate justice and adaptation.

16 Noviembre 2026

Cutting Methane, Creating Value: The NOW Plan One Year After COP30

• Time: 11:30–12:30 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Brazil Pavilion – Mutirão Auditorium, Blue Zone
• Organisers: Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC/UNEP) and Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

This session will discuss progress in diverting organic waste from landfills in Brazil, as well as the challenges and financing mechanisms needed to accelerate implementation and scale up methane mitigation in the waste sector.

Pólis participation: Victor Argentino will contribute as a speaker.

The Future of Cities: Resilient, Inclusive and Scalable Urban Solutions

• Time: 14:00–15:00 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Implementation Hub Pavilion (CNI stand), Blue Zone
• Organisers: Orbis Instituto, iFood, Instituto E+, SB COP and CNI.

Part of the SB COP programme, this panel will showcase urban solutions and discuss how they can be replicated and scaled up in Brazil and internationally. It will address resilient cities, urban work and infrastructure, housing, mobility, technology and the role of public authorities, platforms and civil society in shaping inclusive urban futures.

17 Noviembre 2026

From Organic Waste to Wealth: Finance Mobilization, Carbon Markets and the Business Case for Biogas and Biological Fertilisers

• Time: 10:00–11:00 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
• Location: Zero Waste Pavilion
• Organisers: Zero Waste Foundation and Global Methane Hub.

This session will address financing mobilisation, carbon markets and the economic opportunities associated with producing biogas and biological fertilisers from organic waste.

18 Noviembre 2026

Scaling Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions across the Action Agenda: Workers and Communities in Informal Economies and Settlements

• Time: 12:30–13:30 (Antalya time, UTC+3)

• Location: Special Event Room 3 – Assos (Amphitheatre)

• Organisers: WIEGO and UN Women, with contributions from ICLEI Africa, Africa Just Transition Network, Brazil’s Ministry of Gender, Brazil’s Ministry of Cities, Brazil’s Ministry of Racial Equality and Asiye eTafuleni.

This session will showcase practical, gender-responsive approaches to climate action, focusing on women working in the informal economy and living in vulnerable communities. It will highlight solutions combining participatory design, decentralised renewable energy, community-based early warning systems and locally led adaptation, while recognising women as leaders, workers and essential actors in building climate resilience.

Building for All: Centering Informality in a Resilient Built Environment

– Time: 15:30–16:30 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
– Location: Resilient Cities, Buildings and Cooling Pavilion
– SDI participation: Speaker to be confirmed.

This session will focus on the importance of recognising informality and the realities of informal settlements in efforts to build a more inclusive and climate-resilient urban environment.

Already Adapting, Still Waiting: Getting Adaptation Finance to Where Communities Act

– Time: 16:00–17:00 (Antalya time, UTC+3)
– Location: COP31 Resilience Hub
– SDI speakers: Aziidah Nabasa, National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda; Anta Gueye, Senegalese Federation of Residents (FSH), and Rokhaya Fall, urbaSEN, Senegal; Sikhangezile Page, Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation.

This session will highlight the gap between communities’ ongoing adaptation efforts and their access to climate finance, bringing forward experiences and demands from grassroots organisations working on the front lines of climate change.

19 Noviembre 2026

Delivering Climate Action Through Housing: Financing Resilient, Low-Carbon Urban Futures

• Time: 11:30–13:30 (Antalya time, UTC+3)

• Location: Side Event Room Purple

• Organisers: Build Change, the Government of France, Habitat for Humanity International and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

• Participation: Amira El Halabi, WIEGO’s Climate Justice Specialist and SDI speaker.

This session will explore how climate finance and public investment can support resilient, low-carbon and affordable housing. Recognising that extreme heat, flooding and displacement increasingly threaten housing security, particularly in informal settlements, the discussion will examine financing tools for housing improvements, climate-resilient construction and the integration of housing priorities into national and local climate strategies.

Depaul International & IIED

The Climate Blind Spot on Homelessness: Omissions and Opportunities in National Climate Plans

A report highlighting the absence of homelessness in national climate plans and calling for its recognition as a climate justice issue.

Observatori DESCA

L’Observatori DESCA a la COP31: els drets ambientals en la nova fase del multilateralisme i de l’escalfament per sobre dels 1,5ºC

Analysis of the climate negotiations, multilateralism, corporate capture and the implications of COP31 for Catalonia and Spain.

For several years, the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has been working to strengthen the connections between climate justice and the right to the city, recognising that the climate crisis is also a question of social, economic, spatial and environmental justice.

This collective journey began with the publication of our thematic document on the right to the city and climate justice in 2020, which laid the foundations for further reflection, advocacy and collective action. Since then, we have continued to develop this work alongside our members and allies, connecting local, national, regional and global initiatives, and bringing the perspectives of communities and social movements into climate discussions and policy processes.

Our engagement intensified around COP30, where we worked to strengthen the visibility of the right to the city in global climate debates, highlight the role of cities and territories in climate action, and advocate for people-centred, inclusive and rights-based approaches to climate justice. Our position was clear: there is no climate justice without the Right to the City! 

At COP31, we continue to advance this agenda, highlighting the importance of housing justice, just transitions, community-led climate action and accessible climate finance. Through the participation and contributions of our members and allies, we seek to strengthen a vision of climate action rooted in human rights, democratic participation, social justice and the transformation of our cities and territories.

See below the documents produced by the platform on climate justice and the right to the city.

The GPR2C has joined Latin America, Misereor, IIED-AL and Foro Ciudades para la Vida in a preparatory process over the past few months to discuss some of the key thematics and priorities from Latin American urban movements ahead of COP30. This process resulted in a joint regional position paper on the Right to the City and Climate Justice endorsed by dozens of organizations.

Sheds light on the potential of the Right to the City as «one of the reference frameworks to guide equitable Climate Action and jointly create practical agendas to mitigate Climate Change, adapt to its impacts and ensure the restitution of rights lost in the past, preserving these rights for future generations». The document proves that there are already substantial alternatives to working for Climate Justice around the world!

Click the link below to explore the 18 cases in image format and learn how, in different territories, these transformative actions for life, habitat, and climate are being built. Unfortunately the materials are in Spanish only for the moment.

The Global Platform for the Right to the City (PGDC) is a diverse network, created in 2014, which brings together social movements and organizations, academics, human rights defenders, NGOs and local governments committed to political action and social change through the promotion, defence and realization of the Right to the City at all levels, especially for people and communities affected by exclusion and marginalization.