Germany on Friday said progress was being made at the climate change conference in western Bonn, with a new target on the share of electricity in final energy demand set to be a key theme of the U.N.'s COP31 summit in Türkiye later this year.
Jochen Flasbarth, a junior minister in the German Environment Ministry, said the Turkish presidency of the next global climate change summit, set for November, is demonstrating that "it is determined to drive forward the implementation of the Paris Agreement."
Flasbarth's remarks came in the German city of Bonn, where thousands of climate negotiators gather this week and next to lay the groundwork for COP31, which will be held in the southern Antalya.
Bonn is where texts are drafted and differences are narrowed ahead of the decisions taken by political leaders at the U.N. climate conference. Türkiye will host the summit, while Australia will oversee the formal negotiations.
The summit is taking shape as war in the Middle East drives up energy and commodity prices and highlights the vulnerability of fossil-fuel-dependent economies to supply shortages.
