Turkey opens COP31 in Antalya on Monday with an electrification pitch as climate talks draw huge crowds and modest hopes
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COP31 starts Monday in Antalya, where Turkey, as host, promotes electrification to meet global energy demand while nearly 200 countries hold two-week UN negotiations and more than 100,000 attendees are expected. Tougher curbs on fossil fuels and big new flows of money from budget-stretched developed countries to help poorer states handle climate harm look unlikely; cost-of-living and energy strains linked to the Middle East war hang over the summit. Paul Watkinson, once France’s lead climate negotiator, described it as an intermediate COP not meant to reshape the world yet still needing forward steps; a senior EU official speaking anonymously said people should not anticipate revolutionary climate progress there.
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