Antalya climate summit registrations top last year’s, but Dubai record stands

The UN climate summit in Antalya has registered 68,544 people, more than last year’s gathering in Belém but fewer than the record set in Dubai three years ago. The final attendance figure is not yet known: the UN climate secretariat releases the list of participants who collected badges weeks after each summit, and that total is usually several thousand below registrations.

The Antalya figure puts the summit second by registrations, narrowly ahead of COP29 in Baku, where nearly 67,000 people signed up. More than 54,000 attended that summit, according to the final figures.

Belém had more than 56,000 registrations last year, but 43,000 participants in the final count, excluding staff. Preliminary figures for Antalya list nearly 24,500 registered staff. Dubai remains the largest summit, with almost 84,000 participants.