COP31 Day 4: Your morning brief

RYAN BA­CHOO

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

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The UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence has en­tered its fourth day in An­talya, Türkiye and many world lead­ers are still in town. While the first bit of text is ex­pect­ed to­mor­row, new analy­sis might in­crease the ur­gency by which ne­go­tia­tors op­er­ate. Here are five things to know to start your day:

1) Ne­go­tia­tors con­tin­ue to work on the text. We should have first sight of this some time on Fri­day. The AO­SIS chair told Guardian Me­dia on Thurs­day morn­ing cli­mate fi­nance will be cru­cial for the bloc.

2) Prime min­is­ter of Pales­tine, Mo­hammed Mustafa, re­ceives a stand­ing ova­tion for his speech. He says de­spite Is­rael’s de­struc­tion of Gaza, Pales­tine re­mains com­mit­ted to reach­ing its cli­mate tar­gets.

3) Vice-pres­i­dent of Guyana, Bhar­rat Jagdeo, calls for much faster ac­tion, from cut­ting fos­sil fu­els to elec­tri­fy­ing the econ­o­my. “Af­ter 31 Cops we must judge suc­cess not by the agree­ments we reach but by whether coun­tries can de­liv­er on them,” he said.

4) Gre­ta Thun­berg tells a press con­fer­ence, “We are head­ing to­wards the fu­ture of more geno­cides and more eco­cides... The plan­et is not dy­ing, it is be­ing killed and we know by who.”

5) Fol­low­ing his in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, The Ba­hamas Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis ex­plains how the short ter­mism of geopol­i­tics is wreck­ing ef­forts to curb emis­sions.

Read Davis' full com­ments in the T&T Guardian here:

https://guardian.co.tt/ar­ti­cle/ba­hamas-prime-min­is­ter-po­lit­i­cal-changes-stalling-cli­mate-progress-6.2.2708467.5216d6760b

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