COP31 enters day five: Your morning brief

Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

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COP31 has en­tered its fifth day in An­talya, Türkiye, with di­vi­sions over fos­sil fu­els, cli­mate fi­nance and the pace of the glob­al en­er­gy tran­si­tion ex­pect­ed to dom­i­nate dis­cus­sions. Here are five things to watch to­day:

1. Fos­sil fu­el di­vi­sions: Coun­tries re­main split over calls for a clear roadmap to phase out fos­sil fu­els, with oil and gas-pro­duc­ing na­tions re­sist­ing stronger lan­guage.

2. Brazil's roadmap: Brazil's pro­posed roadmap for tran­si­tion­ing away from fos­sil fu­els is ex­pect­ed to fea­ture promi­nent­ly in dis­cus­sions on the glob­al en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

3. Cli­mate fi­nance: De­vel­op­ing coun­tries con­tin­ue to press for greater ac­cess to pre­dictable cli­mate fi­nanc­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly for adap­ta­tion and ad­dress­ing cli­mate im­pacts.

4. Methane com­mit­ments: New fi­nan­cial com­mit­ments are ex­pect­ed to strength­en ef­forts to re­duce methane and oth­er pow­er­ful green­house gas emis­sions.

5. Guter­res' mes­sage: UN Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res is ex­pect­ed to ad­dress the me­dia as ne­go­ti­a­tions en­ter an­oth­er crit­i­cal phase, with pres­sure mount­ing for coun­tries to turn promis­es in­to ac­tion.