Empowering infrastructure's tomorrow today
Bentley at COP31 the UN Climate Action Conference.
Empowering tomorrow’s infrastructure today
Bentley at COP31 the UN Climate Action Conference
Empowering tomorrow's infrastructure today
Bentley at COP31 the UN Climate Action Conference
November 9 – November 20, 2026
Antalya, Türkiye
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COP31: From Climate Commitments to Infrastructure Delivery
Climate ambition will ultimately be judged by infrastructure delivery. As the world accelerates the clean energy transition and faces escalating climate risks, Bentley is committed to helping governments, utilities, engineers, and operators translate climate commitments into resilient, low-carbon infrastructure through digital intelligence, engineering expertise, and AI-powered decision-making.
Digital technologies can help close the gap between climate ambition and implementation - enabling better decisions, accelerating project delivery, and improving the resilience and performance of critical infrastructure.
About Our Participation at COP31
At COP31, Bentley is focused on what it takes to move from climate commitments to implementation at scale: strengthening infrastructure resilience, enabling better decisions through AI and digital twins, building resilient water and energy systems, and developing the skills needed to deliver climate-ready infrastructure.
Key thematic pillars
1. Infrastructure Resilience
Building infrastructure that can withstand a changing climate is essential for economic prosperity, public safety, and long-term decarbonization. This requires infrastructure owners, engineers, and policymakers to understand climate risks, make informed investment decisions, and design resilience into infrastructure from the outset.
2. Climate Implementation at Scale
The challenge is not only setting ambitious climate goals, but delivering the infrastructure needed to achieve them at the necessary pace and scale. Closing this implementation gap requires more efficient planning and delivery, better coordination across stakeholders, and digital approaches that can help accelerate infrastructure investment while improving resilience and sustainability outcomes.
3. AI for Better Infrastructure Decisions
AI should help engineers make better infrastructure decisions — not replace engineering judgment. Applied responsibly, AI can augment engineering expertise, unlock insights from complex infrastructure data, and support faster, more informed decisions while maintaining engineering rigor, accountability, and human oversight.
4. Resilient Water and Energy Systems
Water and energy systems are on the front line of climate resilience. Strengthening these critical systems requires a lifecycle approach that connects planning, engineering, operations, and long-term investment - improving reliability, reducing risks, and enabling infrastructure to adapt to changing conditions.
5. Building Skills for Climate Delivery
Technology is only as effective as the people who use it. Delivering climate-ready infrastructure at scale will require a new generation of professionals with the resilience knowledge, digital engineering capabilities, and practical skills to turn climate ambition into implementation. Education and industry collaboration will be critical to building this capacity.
Across these priorities, Bentley is working with infrastructure professionals and organizations to help turn climate ambition into practical action through engineering expertise, digital intelligence, digital twins, and AI.
Our activities in the Blue Zone
The Blue Zone is the area at COP31 that is accessible only to government representatives and specific delegates of observer organizations. It hosts the formal negotiations, as well as panel discussions, speaking events, and cultural events, for the duration of the conference.
Meet our team at COP31
Learn more about the Bentley experts presenting and participating in panel discussions at COP31, and discover how infrastructure software can help advance climate resilience, sustainability, and investable infrastructure solutions.
Schedule a meeting with us
Schedule a meeting with Bentley at COP31 to explore how digital twins, geospatial intelligence, and data-driven infrastructure software can help turn climate goals into resilient, sustainable, and investable solutions.