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Turkey hosts UN climate summit while pursuing new fossil fuel projects

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par Ezgi Unsal, Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London

Turkey is making electrification a central theme of this year’s UN climate summit, Cop31, which it is currently hosting in the Mediterranean city of Antalya alongside Australia. The ambition is to raise the share of global energy demand met by electricity from 20% today to 35% by 2035.

But there is a tension in this agenda. More electrification will only cut emissions if the electricity comes from cleaner sources. In Turkey, coal and natural gas still account for more than half of electricity generation, while…

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