In an Inside Climate News article, outgoing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged climate activists at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey not to give up hope, telling them civil society must counter powerful lobbies pressuring governments, a faith in collective action he traces to Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution. The article reports the conference is again far from addressing fossil fuels, with Russia and Saudi Arabia possibly blocking a final decision document, and some countries resisting the term "clean electrification."