UK Foreign Office Roundup for November 11: Miliband Addresses Two COP31 Leaders' Dialogues on Clean Energy Electrification and Green Industry
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) published two speeches by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband at the 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) on GOV.UK on November 11. Miliband addressed the Clean Energy Transition and Electrification leaders' dialogue and the high-level dialogue on Seizing the Green Industrial Opportunity in Antalya, Türkiye, that day, and both speech texts were first published on GOV.UK at 4:16 p.m. London time on November 11. This report is filed as a UK station roundup.
According to the UNFCCC secretariat's information note for the leaders' summit, the Clean Energy Transition and Electrification dialogue took place in Antalya on November 11 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., hosted by COP31 President Türkiye in a moderated leaders' roundtable format. A UK Parliament Library briefing on COP31 notes that the Presidency has published a draft pledge to raise the share of global energy demand met by electricity from around 23 percent today to 35 percent by 2035, making electrification the core theme of the dialogue.
The high-level dialogue, titled Seizing the Green Industrial Opportunity: Investment, Jobs and Growth for Every Economy, followed on the same day from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., co-hosted by Türkiye, Egypt, Germany and the United Kingdom and attended by heads of state and government, heads of international organizations and chief executives. The summit note sets out the dialogue's leader-level message: green industrialization is a growth agenda for every economy, and innovation, electrification and sustainable fuels across industry and manufacturing can drive quality jobs, investment and more resilient economies in advanced, emerging and developing economies alike. The dialogue also backs the Antalya Green Industrialization Compact, the Global Green Industrialization Agenda and the Climate Club, aiming to translate political commitment into implementation.
Under the UK's COP31 priorities published on GOV.UK, Britain's top aim is to uphold the Paris Agreement and keep countries working towards limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, working with other countries to speed up the global shift to clean energy and electrification and to create jobs and economic opportunities through that shift. The Prime Minister is attending COP31 alongside Miliband, while Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Miatta Fahnbulleh leads the UK delegation during the negotiations.
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Source: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Photo: 图：土耳其 Antalya 海湾海岸，COP31 在该市举行。照片：Joe Wallace，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Gulf of Antalya coastline in Türkiye, the host city of COP31. Photo by Joe Wallace, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
