Turkey Pushes Bold Global Plan to Electrify 35% of Energy Use by 2035
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She writes for energy websites and covers several other industries, as well as writing… Turkey, the host of the UN’s COP31 climate summit, has urged other countries to electrify to support the global green transition.
This shift could significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce reliance on fossil fuels over the next decade, helping to achieve global climate change targets.
Murat Kurum, Turkey’s environment minister, who will preside over the COP31 summit alongside Australian representatives, is encouraging countries to meet at least a third of their energy needs with electricity over the next decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kurum stressed that electrifying all sectors of the economy would support a low-carbon future.
He called for an increase in the share of electricity meeting energy demand from 20% today to 35% by 2035.
The proportion of global electricity generated using renewable energy has steadily increased in recent years to around one-third.
However, some hard-to-abate sectors, such as transport, heating, and heavy industry, continue to rely heavily on oil, gas, and coal, with around 80 per cent of global energy still coming from fossil fuels.
The annual UN COP conferences aim to encourage greater coordination for global climate action, in line with the Paris Agreement targets.
Australia’s climate change minister, Chris Bowen, said that COP31 will focus on electrifying the global economy.
“Whether it be electrifying industry in a great industrial powerhouse like Germany or assisting African communities with the journey to clean cooking, or improving the energy security of Pacific nations by replacing diesel with solar energy, renewable energy is now the cheapest form of power available to us,”saidBowen.
Representatives from various governments met in June to discuss priorities for the next COP summit, which will be held this November in Antalya, Turkey.
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