COP31 electric power target sparks row over cutting fossil fuel use

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While hosts Türkiye push for countries to increase electrification of global energy use, Australia is pushing for more households to be fitted with solar panels.

A Türkiye-backed plan to increase electricity's share of energy consumption to 35 per cent by 2035 appears to be meeting resistance at this year's COP31 climate summit.

Australia, meanwhile, wants an agreement to double the number of households with rooftop solar.

Global leaders are set to arrive at Antalya, Türkiye in the coming days for talks.

Pressure is growing for this year's climate talks to do more to cut fossil fuel use, with countries pushing back on an ambitious plan by Türkiye to increase electricity's share of global energy consumption to 35 per cent by 2035.

There was more positive news, though, on an Australian-supported push to double the number of households with rooftop solar panels to at least 300 million by 2030.

Ahead of world leaders arriving for Wednesday's leaders' summit, Tuesday was "energy and transport day" at the UN climate talks being held in Antalya, Türkiye.

But the day got off to a rough start when a massive traffic jam saw many of the 100,000 attendees to the meeting stuck on buses for hours.

Türkiye was keen to promote what it wants to see as the centrepiece of this year's talks — the so-called '35 by 35' — electrification pledge.

But a key sticking point is whether countries can make that pledge by only using electricity generated by clean energy sources.

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