在斐济举行的太平洋地区COP预备峰会上，土耳其部长表示：‘气候问题就是安全问题。’下一届联合国气候大会的主办方强调，富裕国家在应对气候危机方面的投入，应当远远高于北约成员国承诺用于国防的GDP占比5%的水平，因为‘气候问题就是安全问题’。
‘The climate issue is the security issue,’ says Turkish minister at Pacific pre-Cop summit in Fiji Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.
不过，这些言论很可能引发争议。即将出任COP31主席的穆拉特·库鲁姆并未明确表态，各国下月在土耳其开会时是否应重新达成‘逐步淘汰化石燃料’的协议——而化石燃料正是气候危机的主要诱因。作为土耳其气候变化部长，库鲁姆向《卫报》表示，全球‘已然处于转型过程中’，并认为可以通过其他措施间接实现减少化石燃料使用的目标。
But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether the world’s countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month. Kurum, the Turkish climate change minister, told the Guardian the world was “already in a transition” and suggested fossil fuel use could be addressed indirectly through other steps.
