In the context of COP31 · Antalya, Türkiye
TUED Inter-RegionalMeeting 2026
Climate policy tipping point: from private profit to the public pathway.
Unions from every region of the world are converging on Antalya.
Until the meeting begins
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.
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 unions KESK and DİSK, 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 hereBuilding on past inter-regional meetings
Scenes from past TUED meetings
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.
Unions that register their interest will be invited to provide input via Zoom in the coming weeks.