World Leaders Open UN Climate Talks Amid Slow Action Concerns
World leaders opened formal talks Wednesday at COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye. They are seeking concrete steps to curb global warming.
70+ leaders and senior officials are speaking at the leaders' summit.
Leaders of the U.S., China and India skipped the summit.
1 G7 head of government is attending: Britain's Andy Burnham.
2nd straight year the United States has stayed out of the talks.
Why it matters: The talks follow a year of deadly floods and heat waves. Past conferences produced pledges that went unmet, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres says must change.
Germanwatch and the New Climate Institute found a widening gap between plans and emissions cuts.
The war in Iran has raised oil, gasoline and fertilizer prices.
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Where they split: Coverage differs on emphasis: whether the story is the summit's agenda and absent leaders, or Guterres's charge that the fossil fuel lobby is delaying action.
Center coverage, 6 sources: The center frames the summit around leaders' calls for faster action and the absence of major polluting nations.
Left coverage, 5 sources: The left frames the summit around inadequate global action, U.S. absence and Guterres's charge that fossil fuel interests are delaying change.
What’s next: Turkiye is hosting and Australia is leading negotiations. Host Turkiye is pushing a voluntary plan to raise electricity's share of global energy use.
35% electricity share of global energy use by 2035 is the Turkish target.
The EU says electrification must be clean, setting up a debate over fossil fuels.
Can talks agree on how to cut fossil fuel use without the largest emitters' leaders present?
Will high oil prices from the Iran war speed or slow the shift to renewables?
