Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@hot­mail.com

Dozens of world lead­ers are de­scend­ing on An­talya as the third day of the UN Cli­mate Change Sum­mit kicks off. How­ev­er, world lead­ers who have failed to show up are al­so mak­ing the head­lines. Here are five things to know as you start your day:

1) World lead­ers are to be­gin de­liv­er­ing speech­es to­day, hear each oth­ers’ con­cerns and make com­mit­ments to solv­ing cli­mate change.

2) The COP31 Pres­i­den­cy is set to push its Ze­ro Waste with lead­ers and call on them to en­dorse the 35-by-35 Glob­al Elec­tri­fi­ca­tion Pledge and set out how they will elec­tri­fy trans­port, build­ings and in­dus­try.

3) The Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny and Keynote Speech­es of the COP31 An­talya Lead­ers’ Sum­mit will be­gin at 12:15pm lo­cal time (5:15am ECT).

4) De­vel­op­ing coun­tries are ex­pect­ed to re­new calls for greater cli­mate fi­nance, par­tic­u­lar­ly fund­ing to help vul­ner­a­ble na­tions adapt to cli­mate im­pacts and re­cov­er from loss and dam­age.

5) Clean en­er­gy tran­si­tion and elec­tri­fi­ca­tion will fea­ture promi­nent­ly in to­day's high-lev­el dis­cus­sions, with lead­ers ex­pect­ed to dis­cuss the 35-by-35 tar­get of in­creas­ing elec­tric­i­ty's share of glob­al en­er­gy con­sump­tion to 35 per cent by 2035.