COP31: A focus on electrification as extreme weather events shake the world
The IEA says electricity could meet 33% of final energy use by 2035, backing a proposal to accelerate clean power and cut fuel bills.
- On Tuesday, COP31 leaders in Antalya, Turkey, urged nearly 200 countries to sign a pledge to electrify 35% of the global economy by 2035, aiming to speed the shift away from fossil fuel-powered equipment.
- The International Energy Agency reports that faster electrification could save fuel-importing countries more than $400 billion by 2035 while reducing global oil demand by 18 million barrels per day.
- Although the plan aims to reduce emissions, critics argue the pledge fails to mandate clean electricity sources; Turkey and Australia, summit leaders, both rely on coal for more than 40% of their power.
- "Our proposal is not simply electrification, but clean electrification," Portugal's Environment Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho told reporters, while experts warn current emission declines driven by high energy prices are not sustainable.
- Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced new oil production from the Gabar fields will exceed 100,000 barrels per day by 2027, even as scientists report global fossil fuel carbon emissions are set to fall this year.
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The climate crisis is intensifying, but the world is distracted by wars and conflicts.At the World Climate Conference in Antalya, Turkey wants to advance a global electrification plan. Can it give new impetus to the energy transition?
COP31: A focus on electrification as extreme weather events shake the world
Most of the world’s countries are gathering this week for COP31 in Antalya, Turkey. This United Nations Climate Change Conference opens amid deep concern following extreme weather events such as the deadly floods in Nepal and a supersized El Niño. Experts say that in uncertain times, it is even more important to accelerate global efforts.
COP31 host Turkey to push ‘age of electricity’, but will it be green?
By William James and Ezgi Erkoyun ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 10 (Reuters) - COP31 host Turkey will urge countries on Tuesday to put a goal to increase the share of electricity in global energy use at the centre of the conference's final agreement, despite cr...
Turkey, the host country, intends to make electrification a key theme of the meeting.
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