The Cop31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, will hear calls for nuclear’s explicit inclusion in a voluntary global target to increase electricity’s share of total final energy consumption to 35% by 2035.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is hosting an event that will discuss the Cop31 Turkey presidency’s “35 by 35” target, which aims to increase electricity’s share of final energy demand to 35% by 2035, supporting global climate goals under the 2016 Paris Agreement.

Speakers at the event will include a representative from the US-based Clean Air Task Force (CATF) thinktank, which has said nuclear energy has great potential to decarbonise the world energy system at the scale and speed needed to meet the climate challenge.