COP31 presses Australia and Türkiye to turn fossil-fuel pledges into action
At COP31 in Antalya, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged co-hosts Australia and Türkiye to advance Brazil’s voluntary roadmap for moving away from fossil fuels, with clear next steps, timelines and financing. The summit is also debating Türkiye’s target to raise electricity’s share of global energy use to 35% by 2035; the proposed pledge does not require that the electricity be clean.
Bottom line — Brazil’s roadmap is voluntary, and Guterres called for measurable progress on national plans by 2028.
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The United Nations says Brazil’s roadmap sets out ways to assess readiness, identify barriers and plan national action.
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Australia is backing a voluntary pledge to double rooftop-solar households to at least 300 million by 2030, ABC News reports.
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ABC News says the solar pledge has no binding targets; signatories would streamline permits and improve access to finance.
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Global Witness analysis projects Türkiye’s state oil company TPAO will produce more than 22 billion cubic metres of gas in 2035, nearly triple its 2025 output.
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Global Witness says Australia’s Woodside plans to double liquefied natural gas production by 2032; Santos’s oil output is projected to peak in 2033.
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The Conversation reports coal supplied 33% of Türkiye’s electricity in 2025 and gas another 22%.
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More than 700 groups called for a Belém-Antalya Mechanism to support a just transition, according to the Guardian.