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In the context of COP31 · Antalya, Türkiye

TUED Inter-RegionalMeeting 2026

Climate policy tipping point: from private profit to the public pathway.

November 12–14, 2026Mimar Sinan Congress Center, Antalya
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ANTALYA

Unions from every region of the world are converging on Antalya.

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Why Antalya, why now

About the meeting

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) is convening a three-day Inter-Regional Meeting of unions during COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. The meeting will coincide with the People's Climate Summit, whose goals — building energy democracy in all its forms and advancing realistic transformative solutions that challenge fossil fuel dependency — align directly with those of the TUED network.

Thirty years after Kyoto and ten years after Paris, annual emissions remain higher than at any point in history. The neoliberal idea that private markets would lead the transition has been discredited, and many “green” policies have only tightened the grip of the financial elite — imposing a “green structural adjustment” agenda on the Global South.

The need for a policy shift toward a public pathway — anchored in public ownership of energy and other vital industries, public financing, and non-commercial international cooperation — has never been more urgent. The Inter-Regional Meeting creates the space for unions, policy allies, and social movements to collectively strengthen that approach.

3Days of debate and strategy
90+Unions in the global TUED network
1Public pathway for energy democracy
TUED Africa regional meeting in Dar es Salaam — delegates in session before a banner for energy justice and COP30
TUED South Asia-Pacific plenary in Bali — delegates at tables before the Building a Public Pathway banner

Who will be in the room

Participants

The meeting brings together trade unions, labor federations, and social movement and policy allies from every region — North and South — including Turkish host-country unions, organisers of the COP31 People's Climate Summit, and unions from across the TUED global network.

Co-convening unions

Live list — last updated August 21st

  • Public Services International
  • Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA/CSA)
  • Southern Africa Trade Union Coordinating Council (SATUCC)
  • SPNP (Indonesia)
  • PSI Indonesia
  • SENTRO (Philippines)
  • Sosyal-Is (Turkey)
  • European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU)
  • Oilfield Workers Trinidad and Tobago
  • Victoria Trades Hall Council, Australia
  • LabourStart

Planning to attend and discussing co-convening

  • CUT Colombia
  • CUT Chile
  • SINTRAELECOL
  • UNTyPP (Mexico)
  • KPTU (South Korea)
  • CTA Autonoma
  • LAB Sindikatua (Basque Region)
  • Fédération générale de l'électricité et du gaz-UGTT (Tunisia)
  • ASHUGANJ POWER STATION SRAMIK KARMACHARY UNION (Bangladesh)
  • Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE, Canada)
  • FNV Netherlands
  • Sintracarbon (Colombia)
  • National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE, Canada)
  • Sintraelecol (Colombia)
  • SintraIsagen (Colombia)

Become a co-convening union

Add your union to the co-convening list by completing the registration form.

Become a co-convening union here

Building on past inter-regional meetings

Scenes from past TUED meetings

Delegates seated around a large U-shaped table with union banners — PSI, O.W.T.U., and others
Panel of union leaders at the TUED meeting in Nairobi, October 2022, behind a Trade Unions for Energy Democracy banner
A delegate speaking into a microphone during a TUED strategy session
Union delegates in a workshop session at a TUED regional meeting
TUED delegates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America listening with translation headphones during a plenary session
Group photo of TUED South Asia-Pacific delegates in Bali holding signs against privatisation and for a public pathway to a just transition
Panel of union leaders under the TUED South banner with flags of Palestine, Tunisia, and Algeria on the table
Delegates applauding during a TUED meeting session with PSI and Latin American union banners behind them
Wide view of a TUED meeting hall with delegates seated at long tables surrounded by union flags
Mexican SME union delegates wearing shirts reading Por el derecho a la energía at a TUED South session
Latin American trade unionists posing with union banners and the Palestinian flag at a TUED regional meeting
Delegates seated around a large circular table covered with union banners at a TUED Latin America meeting

Join us in Antalya

Register here

Unions interested in being involved in the meeting and its preparations are invited to complete the registration form. Unions can take part as co-convenors, participants, and supporters — please respond as quickly as possible.

Panel of union leaders under the TUED South banner — Building a Public Pathway to a Just Transition
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Unions that register their interest will be invited to provide input via Zoom in the coming weeks.