Plugged-in planet? COP31 host Turkey leads charge for electrification

Home Shows The Debate Video content Program Environment To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva poses with attendees on the day of a meeting called Meeting with Civil Society at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Turkey, November 12, 2026. © Umit Bektas, REUTERS 44:34 Issued on: 12/11/2026 - 20:38 From the show It’s sweater weather in Paris. But even though November brings brisk temperatures and fall foliage, it doesn’t mean last summer’s record heat should fade from our memories. One of the suggested reasons why students are so boiling mad is the hell they endured back in June in overheated classrooms and baking shoebox apartments. The global warming issue compounded by war in the Gulf driving up prices at the pump and in the stores. In this an El Nino year, where the whole planet's prey to extreme weather, the hosts of the annual UN climate summit in Turkey tout a remedy turbo charge the electrification of the planet. We’ll ask about what they mean and whether it will work, particularly for the likes of India whose carbon footprint is growing alongside its economy and its population. Many look at the smog this time of year and compare with the China of the early 2000s. What lessons can Delhi learn from its neighbor's energy transition... China which remains the planet’s manufacturing powerhouse. Produced by François Picard, Théophile Vareille, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente. Video by: