COP31 Day 2: Your morning brief

Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

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Day 2 of the UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence is un­der­way in An­talya, Türkiye (for those who could get there). Del­e­gates have been left frus­trat­ed with some stuck in traf­fic for as many as three hours (and count­ing). Any­way, here are the five things you should know as the con­fer­ence en­ters day two:

1) Both the UN and Turk­ish flags are be­ing flown at half-mast to com­mem­o­rate the death of Türkiye's found­ing fa­ther, Mustafa Ke­mal Atatürk.

2) To­day will be piv­otal as ne­go­tia­tors set the stage for world lead­ers who are set to ar­rive to­mor­row.

3) Ris­ing oil and gas prices at­trib­uted to the war in Iran have en­cour­aged peo­ple to look be­yond fos­sil fu­els, lead­ing to an eas­ing of cli­mate-dam­ag­ing car­bon emis­sions this year, ac­cord­ing to re­search from the Earth Sys­tem Sci­ence Da­ta.

4) Mi­nor protests have gripped COP31 this morn­ing with ac­tivists from Cli­mate Ac­tion Net­work, AP­MDD, 350, and Oil Change In­ter­na­tion­al call­ing for glob­al move to­wards re­new­ables.

5) On the back of host­ing COP31, Türkiye's pres­i­dent Re­cep Tayyip Er­doğan cel­e­brat­ed the "en­cour­ag­ing" dis­cov­ery of two new oil­fields in the Gabar moun­tains last night on X.

Guardian Me­dia's Ryan Ba­choo and Seigo­nie Mo­hammed are on the ground in An­talya, Türkiye for COP31.