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Representatives from three successive UN climate summit presidencies gathered before COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, scheduled to begin in less than a month, to address whether the world can restore trust in climate action as the consequences of a warming planet intensify globally. The meeting on October 16 focused on the central question of how to rebuild confidence in climate commitments when mounting natural disasters demonstrate the accelerating impacts of climate change. The summit preparation highlights escalating pressure on negotiators to produce meaningful outcomes while public trust in climate action remains strained by the visible consequences of environmental degradation and the perceived slowness of global response mechanisms.