An FT special report says Europe heads into the COP31 summit in Antalya with slimmed-down goals, resisting new climate finance for developing countries while focusing on an electrification target of 35 per cent of energy by 2035. Years of pushback from oil producers, China and India, and the EU's own rollback of climate policies, have lowered its ambitions; the bloc's mandate concedes the 1.5C goal is likely to be exceeded.