00:00So the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference continues in Antalya,
00:04Turkey, with the participation of over 90 heads of state and government. For
00:08more on how the summit is unfolding, we welcome correspondent Yunus Suner, who
00:14is present at the summit at this hour. Hello, Yunus. Pleasure to greet you.
00:18Welcome to From the South. Hello, good afternoon, good night, good evening from
00:23Antalya, Turkey. Here it's already dark outside. The second day of the presidential
00:30summit is getting towards its end, but much has happened today here. They started with
00:38the statements that you also referred in your introduction, for instance, by the
00:43acting president of Venezuela, Desi Rodriguez, who had criticized the financial situation
00:48regarding the transition to cleaner energies and who had called the capitalist countries
00:55to assume their responsibilities. This call was also repeated later on by Turkish President
01:01Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the opening of the COP31 Enterprises Forum. He said that developing
01:10countries do have the right to progress. This right has to be accepted by the advanced capitalist
01:19countries, and thus these advanced countries do have to provide the necessary financial resources
01:26for the poorer countries to advance towards clearer energy sources and renewable energy sources.
01:34This call was repeated also by the prime minister of Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif, and later on also by the prime
01:42minister of Bangladesh,
01:43who had also called to eliminate barriers in technology transfer to enable a better and more use of renewable energies.
01:52Well, these were not just calls. They were also practically applied.
01:59Here in Turkey, the host country has today signed two different memorandum of understanding.
02:06The first one was signed with the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,
02:12and two other international development banks, and it has a value of more than 5 billion US dollar.
02:20It pursued its goal is to enable investment to transition certain industries to renewable energies and the use of clear
02:31energies.
02:32And later on in the afternoon came another news.
02:35Turkey's Minister of Energy Alpazlan Bayraktar signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Energy Agency of the People's Republic
02:47of China
02:48in the value of not less than 15 billion US dollars.
02:53The agreement foresees, if realized, it's a memorandum of understanding, that China establishes solar and wind energy here in Turkey
03:02that will produce 7000 megawatt of energy.
03:07This is also in compliance with Turkey's announced strategy of advancing electrification,
03:13that is using more electricity as the final energy source in the country, and the proposal was also worldwide.
03:22So these are two steps where Turkey has taken concrete steps to substitute somewhat Western financing with Asian or respectively
03:32Chinese counterparts.
03:35Very, very important steps.
03:36Beyond that, the summit has continued throughout the day on various issues.
03:41For instance, talks about resilient cities in terms of energy were continuing with participations of mayors
03:50and the goal of establishing a new fund to enable cities to change their urban transport to electrical vehicles and
03:58to restore or renovate their buildings to be more energy saving.
04:02Other aspects were like very specific, for instance, the Nepalese delegation tried to bring into the agenda the issue of
04:12floods that occurred recently and to protect the mountains.
04:16That was an effort joined by Pakistan as well.
04:19So these are also detailed issues.
04:22Dozens of reunions have taken place today, not only on leaders level, but also on ministerial and working group levels.
04:31And the leaders will leave today or tomorrow morning.
04:35The leaders summit has finished today, but their delegations will continue working on the working papers and on compromises to
04:43be presented.
04:44Then when the COP31 ends finally on November 20th here in Antalya, Turkey.
04:51Thank you, Yunus, very much for all of your informations.
04:55We will keep in contact with you in upcoming emissions to know more of what is happening at this hour
05:01at the COP31.
05:02So thank you very much.
