COP31 Turns Fossil-Fuel Exit Plans Into a Coalition-Stress Test

At COP31 in Antalya, countries and advocacy networks backing a faster fossil-fuel transition are pushing national plans, roadmap implementation and treaty architecture. The effort is proceeding despite Colombia’s withdrawal from the Santa Marta process it helped champion, after a change in government shifted national priorities toward oil and gas security. The test is whether a voluntary phaseout bloc can become a durable managed-decline regime rather than another climate summit signal.