At COP31, the Hub's programme focuses on the practical implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and national adaptation plans (NAPs). Sessions are organized around five overarching themes and tailored to specific audiences, including government officials, negotiators, technical experts, development practitioners and youth.
Themes
Mitigation: Sessions cover capacity-building for clean energy systems, electrification and NDC implementation, including peer exchange among countries.
Adaptation: Sessions focus on building resilience in vulnerable contexts from mountain regions to early warning systems, and on turning adaptation frameworks into national action.
Finance, technology and capacity-building (FTC): Sessions focus on capacity-building related to access and scaling of climate finance and uptake and scaling of environmentally sound technologies.
PCCB focus area: A series of sessions explores long-term capacity-building for individuals, local organizations and institutions to improve access to climate finance for locally led adaptation and enhance local ownership.
Negotiations and UNFCCC process: Sessions build skills to engage in the UNFCCC process, including the Enhanced Transparency Framework.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
11:00‑12:30
Orientation Session for Youth and Decoding UNFCCC Language Session
This orientation session helps children and youth delegates take an active and effective part in the UNFCCC process. Secretariat teams share first-hand guidance on engaging in mandated and non-mandated events and other opportunities, with a focus on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) and youth-related events.
Special Event Room 5
16:30-17:30
The Role of Youth Negotiators in Building the Implementation Ecosystem
This session explores the capacities needed to catalyse implementation across the Rio Conventions. In a world-café conversation, young negotiators, senior country representatives and observer organizations identify the conditions and partnerships that drive implementation.
Special Event Room 5
17:30‑18:30
Capacity-building Hub High-level Opening Ceremony
The High-level Opening of the Capacity-building Hub at COP31 will officially launch the Hub's programme and convene senior leaders and strategic partners from across the climate capacity-building community to highlight the critical role of capacity-building in accelerating climate action and supporting the implementation of the Convention and the Paris Agreement.
Provisional programme as of 29 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
09:00‑10:00
From Risk to Readiness: Capacity-building for Early Warning Systems
Natural disasters are becoming increasingly frequent and severe due to climate change. This interactive session will explore how capacity-building can strengthen institutional, technical and community preparedness for disaster risk reduction and enhance the effectiveness of early warning systems. Through practical examples, expert insights and peer exchange, participants will examine tools, partnerships and governance approaches that support integrated risk management and climate adaptation.
Special Event Room 5
10:15‑11:15
From Local Idea to Funded Project: Capacities to Access Adaptation Finance
Special Event Room 5
11:15‑12:00
Climate Capacity-building through the GCF Readiness Programme
This session will introduce the GCF's proposed Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme Strategy, highlighting how readiness support strengthens country capacities, enhances access to climate finance and supports the development of climate projects and programmes through an interactive exchange with stakeholders.
Special Event Room 5
12:15‑13:15
Just Transition Capacity Lab
This session will explore how governments and stakeholders can strengthen the capacities needed to design, finance and implement fair and effective transition pathways. Bringing together perspectives from government, climate policy and workers' representatives, it will examine the institutional and practical challenges to implementation, as well as the partnerships and approaches that can help overcome them.
Special Event Room 5
13:15‑14:30
Starting from the Local Idea: What Local Organizations Need to Access and Manage Adaptation Finance
Special Event Room 5
14:15‑15:30
Powering NDC Implementation: Electrification and the GST Energy Goals
The event will assess progress on the GST energy goals and explore how accelerating electrification across industry, transport, buildings and grids can drive implementation, energy security, energy access and emissions reductions while supporting sustainable development.
Special Event Room 6
14:30‑16:00
Governance for Effective Country Platforms By invitation only.
A workshop with GFANZ and the GCBC will help government officials design and implement country platforms to unlock investment for transition and resilience. The first in-person session uses a fictional case study to explore governance, including roles, ministry coordination, political ownership and private-sector engagement.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
09:00‑10:00
Meet and Greet the PCCB Network
Special Event Room 5
10:00‑11:00
From Vulnerability to Resilience: Building Capacity for Climate Action in Mountain Regions
While all regions face climate impacts, mountain regions require tailored capacity-building approaches due to complex and interconnected risks, geographic isolation, limited data availability, and barriers to finance and implementation. This session explores pathways to strengthen resilience through partnerships, knowledge and action, highlighting how mountain impacts extend across interconnected social-ecological systems.
Special Event Room 5
11:15‑12:45
Pitch Perfect: Empowering Climate Voices for Adaptation, Mitigation and Finance Solutions
Participants showcase innovative adaptation, mitigation and means of implementation solutions to climate-related capacity gaps, receiving real-time feedback from communication experts, financiers, and policy and thematic experts while engaging the audience in interactive learning.
Special Event Room 5
13:00‑14:00
Strengthening the Institutions that Connect Local Actors with Adaptation Finance
Special Event Room 5
14:15‑15:45
Capacity-building for Clean Energy Systems: From NDCs to Implementation
An interactive session on building the technical and institutional capacity needed to move clean energy solutions from policy commitments to delivery on the ground.
Special Event Room 5
16:00‑17:30
Country Experiences Driving Action: Peer Exchange Approaches for Accelerating NDC Implementation
This session combines country experiences from Peer Exchange Workshops with the scalable Peer-to-Peer Exchange model, showing how sustained peer learning, action planning and partnerships can support NDC implementation, including the translation of priorities into coordinated, finance-ready implementation.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
10:30‑11:30
Technical Training: Designing Impactful Proposals for Adaptation and Resilience
This technical training offers practical steps for designing impactful adaptation and resilience proposals. Through two rounds of lectures and group discussions, participants explore National Adaptation Plans, the Global Goal on Adaptation and the Belém Adaptation Indicators.
Special Event Room 5
11:30‑12:00
Masterclass - Negotiating Climate Change: Shifting Landscapes and Key Challenges
This masterclass explains the history, recent developments and current challenges of climate negotiations. It places negotiations within global climate governance and the shift from institution-building to implementation. A short lecture is followed by Q&A.
Special Event Room 5
12:00‑13:00
Technical Support for Improving Methane Emissions Data and Projections in Agriculture and Waste Sectors for Effective Implementation of the Enhanced Transparency Framework
The secretariat will share its latest project, launched in 2025 with the support of GMH, which provides technical support to improve methane emissions data and projections in the agriculture and waste sectors for the effective implementation of the Enhanced Transparency Framework by developing countries.
Special Event Room 5
15:15‑16:45
Making International Support Count for Local Capacity in the Long Term
Special Event Room 5
17:00‑18:30
Learning session, introduction to the ETF
This interactive session will introduce the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), connect transparency to ambition and equip emerging negotiators with the knowledge to start engaging on the topic.
Special Event Room 5
18:45‑19:45
Strengthening Designated Authorities: Building Country Ownership and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Adaptation Finance
This session will bring together Designated Authorities from developing countries to exchange experiences, identify persistent capacity gaps and explore practical solutions for strengthening country ownership in accessing and managing adaptation finance. It will provide a dedicated space for Designated Authorities to engage with capacity-building providers, share peer-learning insights and co-identify priority areas for targeted support.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
11:00‑13:00
COP31 Interactive Negotiation Lab
Experience the UNFCCC negotiation process through an interactive role-play. Participants assume negotiation roles, build coalitions, negotiate draft decisions and learn key procedures, consensus-building and diplomacy used in real UN Climate Change negotiations.
Global Climate Action Special Event Room 2 (GCA SPE 2)
12:00‑13:00
Who Gets to Build Capacity? Making Climate Research, Technology and Innovation More Inclusive
Who gets to build capacity in climate research, technology and innovation? Through project showcases and discussion, this session explores who current initiatives reach, who remains underserved, what capacity gaps persist, and how efforts can become more inclusive, effective and sustainable.
Special Event Room 5
15:30‑17:00
Connecting the Pathway towards Lasting Local Capacity for Adaptation Finance
Special Event Room 5
17:00‑18:00
Capacity-building Accelerator: Track Your Impact
This session will strengthen participants' ability to design robust impact frameworks and to track the impact of capacity-building initiatives effectively.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
09:00‑10:00
Well-being for Climate Action
This interactive session explores well-being as a foundation for climate adaptation and resilience. Through Indigenous knowledge, artistic expression, nature connection and collective practices, participants will develop new perspectives and capacities to support human and planetary well-being in climate action.
Special Event Room 6
10:00‑10:30
Masterclass - Urban Nature for Climate Resilience: Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation, Mitigation and Just Urban Transitions
This masterclass explores how urban nature and Nature-based Solutions support adaptation and mitigation while advancing just urban transitions. Drawing on the SUN Project in Kanazawa, Japan, and other city cases, it combines a short presentation, a visual reflection exercise and Q&A.
Special Event Room 6
14:30‑15:40
Masterclass on AI for Water-Energy-Food Systems
Organized by the PCCB, the TEC and the CTCN in partnership with KOICA, this masterclass is part of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Initiative on AI for Climate Action. Participants will explore how AI can be used to improve water-energy-food systems.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
14:00‑15:00
Learn It, Live It: The Learning Journey to Understanding All Aspects of Response Measures Launches at COP31
All eight modules on the impacts of the implementation of response measures launch at COP31. From impact assessment to just transition and economic diversification, participants can learn at their own pace, join KCI experts live, ask questions and receive a certificate.
Provisional programme as of 30 October 2026. Updates will follow.
Time (UTC+3)
Session
Location
Overall theme
13:00‑14:00
Translating the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience into National Action through Practical Tools and Partnerships
A practical dialogue on translating the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience into national action through tools, partnerships and learning, including a demonstration of the Adaptation Committee's State of Adaptation Action Portal.
Mitigation: Sessions cover capacity-building for clean energy systems, electrification and NDC implementation, including peer exchange among countries.
Adaptation: Sessions focus on building resilience in vulnerable contexts from mountain regions to early warning systems, and on turning adaptation frameworks into national action.
Finance, technology and capacity-building (FTC): Sessions focus on capacity-building related to access and scaling of climate finance and uptake and scaling of environmentally sound technologies.
PCCB focus area: A series of sessions explores long-term capacity-building for individuals, local organizations and institutions to improve access to climate finance for locally led adaptation and enhance local ownership.
Negotiations and UNFCCC process: Sessions build skills to engage in the UNFCCC process, including the Enhanced Transparency Framework.
