On 9 November, delegates from almost every country will gather in Antalya, on Turkey’s south coast, for COP 31, the United Nations’ annual climate summit. In 2023, at COP 28 in Dubai, they agreed on ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems’, and that ‘transitional fuels can play a role’ along the way. Britain put that second line into practice on 21 October, when the Labour government announced its approval of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.
There is no future without oil and gas
