The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), taking place in Antalya, Turkey, finds Chile with a task that the Ministry of the Environment considers fundamental: moving from climate commitments to their concrete implementation. To achieve this, the government will seek to expand sources of international financing, strengthen adaptation measures, and improve mechanisms for monitoring national emissions. The gathering, jointly organized by Turkey and Australia, brings together delegations from more than 200 countries. While the former leads the climate action agenda, Australia leads the negotiations, whose outcome is expected by next Friday the 20th. The representation of our country, which does not include President Kast's attendance at the leaders' meeting, falls to Minister Francisca Toledo. She, along with her team, will depart for Turkey this Saturday and will lead the ministerial negotiations between November 16 and 18. The national delegation as a whole comprises around 120 representatives, including authorities, parliamentarians, public officials, academics, and civil society organizations. Among them are Senators Sergio Gahona (UDI) and Ricardo Celis (PPD), and Deputy Gonzalo Winter (FA). Also attending are the mayors of San Joaquín and Papudo, Cristóbal Labra and Claudia Adasme, respectively. Chile's main bet will be to secure mechanisms that allow financing the obligations established in the Framework Law on Climate Change, which sets carbon neutrality for 2050. As explained by the head of the Office of International Affairs of the Ministry of the Environment, Juan Pablo Torres, the country already has a good portion of the institutional instruments in place, but the challenge now is to turn them into verifiable and funded projects. In this scenario, efforts will be made to advance a so-called platform that articulates public, private, and multilateral resources to carry out mitigation and adaptation projects. During COP31, Minister Toledo will also hold meetings with international financial organizations and multilateral funds to explore new sources of investment. The Secretary of State explained that the national budget is often insufficient to address the necessary transformations on its own. Negotiators Committee Although the Chilean delegation is made up of around 120 representatives, the team of technical negotiators consists of only ten specialists from different public agencies, whose mission is to address more than 50 negotiation matters during the days the COP lasts. Participating in the technical negotiators team are Angélica Romero, head of the Division of Trade and Sustainable Development of the Subrei; as well as Macarena Sarrás and Luciano Travella, specialists from the Environment Division of the Foreign Ministry. They are joined by four representatives from the Ministry of the Environment: Cristina Arriagada, Johanna Arriagada, Gladys Santis, and Paula Fuentes. The team is completed by Angelina Espinoza, acting deputy director of the Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (Odepa) of the Ministry of Agriculture; Daniela Duhart, acting head of the Sustainable Finance Unit of the Ministry of Finance; and Ambrosio Yobanolo, deputy director of Planning and Management Control of the Sustainability and Climate Change Agency of Corfo. Many of them have spent years working in their respective areas of specialization to keep track of negotiations that extend over several years. To strengthen its negotiating capacity, Chile also participates in the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC), made up of seven countries that coordinate positions at climate conferences. From Antalya, Felipe Pino, Climate Governance specialist at the NGO FIMA, explains that the size of delegations conditions their capacity to participate, but he points out that a smaller contingent does not necessarily mean less influence. "Chile, with the delegation it has, has shown important leadership in the just transition negotiation, and has been one of the most ambitious and recognized countries in the room," he states. The head of the Climate Change Division, Hernán López, explained that national priorities are concentrated on three pillars: financing, adaptation, and transparency. Adaptation takes on special importance because Chile accounts for less than 1% of global emissions, yet faces high exposure to extreme weather events. Another relevant debate will be the electrification of economies, one of the priorities promoted by the Turkish presidency of COP31. Chile will participate in the discussions on new international targets, where it will present its experience in renewable energies, coal plant closures, and the electrification of public transport. It will also seek to promote the circular economy and methane emission reductions, especially through better management of household waste and landfills. The BBNJ Plan To this is added a diplomatic objective, which involves strengthening the joint candidacy of Chile and Belgium to host the secretariat of the High Seas Treaty —known as BBNJ—, aimed at protecting marine biodiversity in international waters. The bid competes with China and will be promoted through bilateral meetings led by members of the Foreign Ministry, which aspires for the technical meetings of the subsidiary bodies to take place in both Brussels and Valparaíso. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pushing the candidacy jointly with Belgium to assume the Executive Secretariat of the High Seas Treaty, BBNJ. DPR Valparaíso In this regard, Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna commented that the candidacy in alliance with Belgium "increases the chances of success for Valparaíso to become the seat of its Executive Secretariat and, so to speak, the world capital of ocean preservation." The decision on this candidacy will be known in January, at the first summit on this matter to be held in New York. But returning to Turkey, and as the negotiations move toward their close, Chile's bet will be to ensure that the environmental commitments made in recent years find concrete mechanisms of financing and implementation to put them into action as soon as possible.