At the opening of Cop31 in Turkey, president of negotiations and Australia’s climate change minister, Chris Bowen, acknowledged the world would overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C warming limit but said 'we can return' if countries acted with urgency and cooperation. Against a backdrop of soaring fossil fuel prices and growing pressure to accelerate the transition to clean energy, Bowen called for faster electrification, with a goal of increasing electricity’s share of global energy consumption from one-fifth to one-third

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