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  {
    "id": "day-1",
    "n": 1,
    "date": "2026-11-09",
    "date_label": "Mon 9 Nov",
    "theme": "Food, agriculture and health",
    "plain": "Opening day. Türkiye took the chair and Australia took charge of the negotiations. The agenda, the list of topics up for negotiation, goes to countries for approval.",
    "expert": "Opening plenaries of COP 31, CMP 21, CMA 8 and SB 65. Election of the President, agenda adoption, launch of contact groups.",
    "basis": "reported",
    "source_id": "un-news-opening",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-2",
    "n": 2,
    "date": "2026-11-10",
    "date_label": "Tue 10 Nov",
    "theme": "Energy and transport",
    "plain": "Negotiators split into small working groups, one per topic, and start working through draft text line by line.",
    "expert": "Contact groups and informal consultations begin first readings. Co-facilitators collect textual proposals from Parties.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-3",
    "n": 3,
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "date_label": "Wed 11 Nov",
    "theme": "Zero waste · Leaders’ Summit, day 1",
    "plain": "Heads of government arrive and give speeches. They set the political tone and sometimes announce money. They do not negotiate text.",
    "expert": "World Leaders Climate Action Summit: national statements. Technical negotiations continue in parallel.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-4",
    "n": 4,
    "date": "2026-11-12",
    "date_label": "Thu 12 Nov",
    "theme": "Resilient cities and buildings · Leaders’ Summit, day 2",
    "plain": "Second day of leaders’ speeches. Watch for new pledges and for which big emitters stayed away.",
    "expert": "Summit concludes. Announcements land under the Action Agenda, outside the negotiated outcome.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-5",
    "n": 5,
    "date": "2026-11-13",
    "date_label": "Fri 13 Nov",
    "theme": "Finance and trade",
    "plain": "Money is the day's theme. In the negotiations themselves, the first cleaned-up drafts usually appear.",
    "expert": "First iterations of draft conclusions and decision text are typically issued by co-facilitators.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-6",
    "n": 6,
    "date": "2026-11-14",
    "date_label": "Sat 14 Nov",
    "theme": "Children, youth, education and skills",
    "plain": "The technical experts usually finish this weekend. Anything they could not settle is handed up to ministers.",
    "expert": "SBSTA and SBI usually close around the end of week one and forward draft decisions, often still bracketed, to the COP and CMA.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-7",
    "n": 7,
    "date": "2026-11-15",
    "date_label": "Sun 15 Nov",
    "theme": "“Breath in Antalya” social and cultural programme",
    "plain": "A pause in the official programme. Deals are often sounded out quietly on this day.",
    "expert": "No thematic programme. Bilaterals and presidency consultations typically continue informally.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-8",
    "n": 8,
    "date": "2026-11-16",
    "date_label": "Mon 16 Nov",
    "theme": "Science, industry and technology",
    "plain": "Week two. Ministers take over from the technical negotiators and the arguments become political.",
    "expert": "High-level segment and ministerial consultations. India and Germany are due to co-chair the ministerial sessions on mitigation.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-9",
    "n": 9,
    "date": "2026-11-17",
    "date_label": "Tue 17 Nov",
    "theme": "Oceans, seas, nature and land use",
    "plain": "Ministers trade across topics. Movement on money is exchanged for movement on emissions, for example.",
    "expert": "Cross-issue trade-offs. Presidency texts begin to replace co-facilitator drafts.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-10",
    "n": 10,
    "date": "2026-11-18",
    "date_label": "Wed 18 Nov",
    "theme": "Human and social development",
    "plain": "The presidency usually publishes its own draft of the main deal. It is the first full picture of the outcome.",
    "expert": "Presidency draft of the headline decision is typically circulated. Heads-of-delegation meetings and huddles follow.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-11",
    "n": 11,
    "date": "2026-11-19",
    "date_label": "Thu 19 Nov",
    "theme": "İmece: strengthening implementation",
    "plain": "Near-final drafts. İmece is the Turkish tradition of a village doing a job together.",
    "expert": "Final iterations. Remaining brackets are resolved in presidency-led consultations, often overnight.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "day-12",
    "n": 12,
    "date": "2026-11-20",
    "date_label": "Fri 20 Nov",
    "theme": "Final negotiations",
    "plain": "The scheduled last day. Every decision is approved in one closing session, and any country can object. COPs usually run late: Belém finished about 27 hours over.",
    "expert": "Closing plenaries adopt decisions by consensus. COP30 closed about 27 hours late, the 11th longest on record.",
    "basis": "usual-pattern",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  }
]