\u201cObviously, it would be great if Australia could have it all,\u201d Bowen said. \u201cBut we can\u2019t have it all.\u201d <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy of Australia, speaks during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano)<\/p>\n Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy of Australia, speaks during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n The venue for the talks, formally known as the Conference of the Parties, or COP, is rotated annually through five regions in which countries submit nominations. Next year\u2019s region is the Western European and Others Group, which includes both Turkey and Australia \u2014 the two countries that had been vying to be host. <\/p>\n David Ritter, who leads Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said the arrangement to split the venue and presiding officer between two countries was \u201chighly unusual,\u201d and that he hoped it wouldn\u2019t diminish the conference mission. <\/p>\n \u201cWhatever the forum, whoever the president, the urgency and focus cannot change, and phasing out fossil fuels and ending deforestation must be at the core of the COP31 agenda,\u201d Ritter said.<\/p>\n A representative of small Pacific island nations said his group had hoped that Australia would be the host country to give his region more of a voice. <\/p>\n Steven Victor, the minister of agriculture, fisheries and environment of Palau, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the coalition of small-island developing states<\/a> in the Pacific \u2014 which are among the most climate vulnerable countries in the world<\/a> \u2014 are still trying to understand how this new arrangement will be implemented.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not something we wanted to see happen, but at least we still have some level of voice in it,\u201d Victor said. \u201cWe need to figure out how to amplify that voice and influence the process.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00dcmit Sahin, head of Climate Policy Program at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanc\u0131 University, said \u201cthe climate talks at Antalya will be unique in many ways. It\u2019ll be a Mediterranean COP, a Middle Eastern COP, a COP with a Pacific dimension all at once.\u201d <\/p>\n Sahin said that Turkey has sometimes been a bridge between developed and developing countries. He added Turkey will need to carefully navigate its close ties with major oil producers Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan as it begins preparations for hosting the talks. <\/p>\n \u201cThese relationships warrant careful scrutiny, as they could shape the impartiality, ambition, and integrity of conference outcomes,\u201d Sahin said.<\/p>\n Ethiopia was announced as host for COP32 earlier this week. Other nations, including India<\/a>, have already bid to host the talks the year after that.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Associated Press reporter Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India, contributed to this report. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press\u2019 climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. 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