COP31: Your morning brief

The 31st Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence start­ed in An­talya, Türkiye this morn­ing. Here are five things you should as world lead­ers meet to ne­go­ti­ate a way for­ward on the cli­mate cri­sis:

1) 70,000 peo­ple are reg­is­tered to at­tend COP31. They in­clude civ­il so­ci­ety groups, In­dige­nous peo­ple, law­mak­ers, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of sub­na­tion­al gov­ern­ments, busi­ness­peo­ple and in­vestors.

2) Sev­er­al “cli­mate lead­ers” a no-show. While the fo­cus is on who is here in An­talya, the ab­sence of some lead­ers is glar­ing. Em­manuel Macron of France, Friedrich Merz of Ger­many and Mark Car­ney of Cana­da all claim to be cli­mate lead­ers. They will not at­tend.