Coal, cancer and COP31: How Turkey’s drive to expand a major coal plant is polluting its climate push
As Turkey welcomes world leaders to COP31, a reliance on fossil fuels — with little end in sight — is severely undermining its climate credentials.
As Turkey welcomes world leaders to COP31, a reliance on fossil fuels — with little end in sight — is severely undermining its climate credentials.

China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe — including the US — must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry says.
Going digital is often assumed to be a modern, efficient strategy that will save energy and resources. Thirty years of data from the world’s largest economies suggest the energy needed to power them has so far outweighed the savings.
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience, and cowardice, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
