Irene Vélez Torres is the former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development (2025-2026) and former Minister of Mines and Energy (2022-2023) of Colombia. Hon. Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Minister of Climate Change, Adaptation, Meteorology and Geo-Hazards, and Energy.
Governments will gather next week in Antalya, Türkiye, for COP31, this year’s United Nations climate summit. Three years ago, at the same summit in Dubai, nearly every country on Earth agreed, for the first time, to work toward transitioning energy systems away from fossil fuels.
There is still no agreement on how to do it or where to sta
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