The Stratcom Public Forum, to be organised by our Directorate as part of COP31, will address the role of climate policies in global competition, the impact of climate narratives on public opinion, and the importance of reliable communication.
At the panel entitled ''Climate Narratives in Global Competition: Trust, Transparency and Legitimacy'', various national and international actors will come together to discuss the future of climate communications. The Stratcom Public Forum COP31 Edition, to be organised by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, will take place on 14 November 2026 at the Türkiye Pavilion in the COP31 Blue Zone at the Antalya EXPO Centre.
The panel entitled ''Climate Narratives in Global Competition: Trust, Transparency and Legitimacy'', to be held as part of the Forum, will examine the global competition over narratives shaped around the climate crisis and the green transition from a strategic communications perspective. The panel will highlight the need to assess climate policies not only in terms of the targets set and their implementation, but also in terms of how they are communicated to the public, the data on which they are based, and how they are received by society.
Trust and transparency to take centre stage in climate communications
The panel will focus on the importance of access to reliable information, transparency, accountability and public participation in tackling climate change, while discussions will address how countries communicate their climate policies, the climate narratives shaped by different actors and the impact of these narratives on global competition. The spread of false and misleading information on digital platforms, the accurate and clear communication of scientific data to the public, the credibility of institutions and the public legitimacy of climate policies will also be among the key topics on the panel’s agenda. In addition, the responsibilities of states, international organisations, the media, the private sector and digital platforms in climate communication will be examined. The discussions will focus on the role of clearly communicating the economic and social impacts of climate policies in strengthening public trust.
Multi-stakeholder dialogue at the international level
The panel, moderated by Prof. Abdulmenaf Turan, will feature Deputy Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Fatma Varank, AK Party Member of Parliament for Diyarbakır and Chair of the Environment Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye Mehmet Galip Ensarioğlu, Head of COP31 Presidency of Negotiations Branch at the Australian Government Ingrid Lundberg, and Klima2020 Director Svein Tveitdal as speakers. The panel, to be held in Turkish and English, will draw on the experiences of different countries and institutions to explore how trust can be established in climate communication, how transparency can be strengthened and how differing views can be brought together on a common platform for dialogue. In line with the “Dialogue, Consensus, and Action” approach championed by Türkiye in the COP31 process, the importance of bringing differing views together around shared goals and translating climate commitments into concrete results will also be examined.