{"id":62760,"date":"2026-11-12T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/venezuela-tells-cop31-it-has-sovereign-right-to-pump-more-oil\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:49:42","slug":"venezuela-tells-cop31-it-has-sovereign-right-to-pump-more-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/venezuela-tells-cop31-it-has-sovereign-right-to-pump-more-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela tells COP31 it has sovereign right to pump more oil"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Venezuela\u2019s Acting President \u200bDelcy Rodriguez told the COP31 climate conference on Thursday (November 12, 2026) \u2060that the country has the sovereign right to develop its oil industry, even as it recognises the importance of combating climate change.<\/p>\n

Her comments at the UN \u200ctalks on Turkiye\u2019s Mediterranean coast jar with efforts by other conference leaders to convince global governments to accelerate a \u200cshift from carbon-emitting fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

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But they dovetail with the United \u200cStates’ \u2060efforts to raise billions of dollars towards increasing oil output in \u2060Venezuela, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.<\/p>\n

“We reaffirm our sovereign right to strengthen our energy and oil industry as a driver of our national \u200bdevelopment,” Ms. Rodriguez told the summit. “It is \u200cpossible to grow and protect the environment at the same time.”<\/p>\n

Venezuela’s forests acted as a “lung for the planet”, absorbing more carbon than the country emits, she added. She did not address the impact \u200cthat oil exported from the country had on global emissions.<\/p>\n

President \u200bDonald Trump, who withdrew the United States from formal climate cooperation last year after calling global warming a hoax, \u2060has said investing in Venezuela’s oil can bolster national security by increasing Western Hemisphere energy supplies.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Burnham backs renewables<\/h4>\n

Earlier on Thursday (November 12, 2026), British Prime \u200cMinister Andy Burnham told the conference that energy supply disruptions from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and Russia’s war with Ukraine showed the need for countries to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy.<\/p>\n

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“It is now plain for everyone to see that if we depend on energy we do not control, then we leave ourselves exposed \u200cto prices we cannot control,” he said. “The shift to clean energy is the only route \u200bto energy security.”<\/p>\n

Thursday (November 12, 2026) is the fifth day of the two-week COP31 conference where representatives from nearly 200 countries \u2060are trying to agree a deal to improve progress in tackling climate \u2060change.<\/p>\n

A UN report last month found the world was on course to break through the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees \u200cFahrenheit) warming limit that countries had agreed to pursue under the 2015 Paris Agreement to prevent the worst effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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