GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Need to know – ” The meeting takes place against the backdrop of an ongoing fossil-fuel cost crisis which has sent energy and transport costs spiralling…Now more than ever, the climate crisis and its causes are on every kitchen table, hitting every economy and population hard.” – Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change executive secretary, in comments made ahead of COP31: Day 1 – Monday 9 November
Edited by Dr Simon Evans
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: After the official opening of COP31 this morning, discussions will move onto the agenda. There have been fears of an “agenda fight” over whether to add additional issues in negotiations over the next two weeks. Items submitted for potential inclusion include trade measures, tripling adaptation finance and mountains and climate change. Carbon Brief understands a proposed package to resolve the agenda was presented to heads of delegation in the small hours of this morning. The opening plenary will show if it has been accepted.
ROADMAP TO WHERE?: COP31 is being led by the joint presidency of Turkey and Australia, both of which have come under fire in recent weeks for their fossil-fuel expansion. Last week, the Brazilian COP30 presidency finally released its long-awaited fossil-fuel phaseout “roadmap” for the world, but it remains unclear how – or if – it will feature in official negotiations in Turkey. (See Carbon Brief’s coverage of the fossil-fuel roadmap and another roadmap on ending deforestation.)
TEXT PLEASE: At the June climate talks in Bonn – which are supposed to set the stage for COP31 – parties struggled to reach agreement in key areas. As a result, there is currently no agreed text for negotiators to work from for the “mitigation work programme”, the global goal on adaptation and several other agenda items. This “gridlock” in June came as many diplomats spoke of declining trust in the UN climate process.
Media Picks:
- The Guardian has a feature previewing the COP31 summit titled: “Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?”
- University of Sussex researchers Freddie Daley and Prof Peter Newell write in the Conversation that, while COP31 host Turkey wants to focus on electrification, the event “still needs a plan to ditch fossil fuels”.
- In a Hindu op-ed, researchers Ankita Rajan and Tejal Kanitkar argue that “overshoot” is “likely to be the flavour at COP31 – and could once more help some countries avoid the real issues”.
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- Carbon Brief has published its text tracker, which will log all the negotiating documents across every agenda item over the next two weeks.
- Yesterday, the COP30 presidency released a new report on…
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