The new challenges of COP 31: Electrification and artificial intelligence |
The new challenges of COP 31: Electrification and artificial intelligence
Turkey would like to be the first country to promote an international pledge that recognizes the role of AI in the green transition and the risks it brings. But it is a pledge with no figures and no targets, and it is unlikely to have any real effect.
Will the wave from Brazil and the US midterms reach all the way to the climate negotiations? That is the question delegates are asking themselves as they set off for COP31, the United Nations climate negotiation conference that will be held in Antalya, Turkey, from Monday, November 9, to November 20.
This is not because the elections just held have any direct bearing on the talks, but because their outcome is changing the mood in the negotiating rooms. The United States, which Donald Trump has kept away from the table for the past two years, now seems closer to returning to it; likewise, halting the advance of climate-denying leaders seems easier. The outcome of the midterms could also put at least part of the US green transition back on track.
“This result will hand the Democrats greater room for maneuver on energy policy and put the incentives promoted by the Biden administration back on the table,” analysts at ECCO, the Italian climate think tank, write.
The speeches by heads of state and government are scheduled for November 11 and 12. The United........