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Bain at COP31

Climate targets are set. The question now is which moves actually pay off? At COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, Bain will be on the ground with business leaders, translating climate commitments into capital allocation, competitiveness, and decisions that drive growth.

Our delegates will dig into explore where the real business value sits: Energy transition and electrification, green industrialization, climate finance and investment, and regenerative agriculture; assessed through where companies should shape the market, monitor and prepare, or avoid overexposure.

Our Delegation

Jean-Charles van den Branden Partner Brussels

Cate Hight Partner

Valeria Sterpos Partner Milan

Onur Candar Partner Istanbul

Deike Diers Partner Zurich

Armando Guastella Partner Rome

Emre Demircan Partner Istanbul

Onur Kayahan Partner Istanbul

Helen Liu Partner Shanghai

Yang Liu Partner Beijing

Türkiye's Leaders Ahead of COP31

In the lead-up to COP31 in Antalya, Armando Guastella, Partner at Bain & Company, sat down with Fezal Okur Eskil, Chief Strategy and M&A Officer at Yıldız Holding, and Hüseyin Gelis, President of Siemens Türkiye.

They bring two different perspectives: a global food group and industrial technology. Each conversation looks back at Bain's earlier research on Türkiye's sustainability agenda and asks how sustainability ambitions and expectations have evolved amid economic, geopolitical and technological change. The focus has moved to execution. The leaders return to common themes, among them value chains and financeability, and share what they expect from the upcoming COP31.

COP31: Top Themes

The business case for climate action is shifting from ambition to exposure management. At COP31, four themes will define where that exposure sits.

The energy transition and electrification are redrawing cost curves and competitive position across industries. Green industrialization—from circular materials and resource loops to reshored production—is forcing a rethink of where and how companies build. Climate finance and investment is determining who can fund the transition and who gets left financing it. Regenerative agriculture is reshaping supply chain resilience at the source. Running through all four is a sharper mandate for leaders, enabling them to build resilience and adapt faster than the physical and market risks compound.