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Coal, cancer and Cop31: How Turkey’s drive to expand a major coal plant is polluting its climate push

Coal, cancer and Cop31: How Turkey’s drive to expand a major coal plant is polluting its climate push
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Residents around the Afşin-Elbistan coal plant believe it has killed family members, leaving a ghost town as people have been forced away. As Turkey welcomes world leaders to Cop31, a reliance on fossil fuels – with little end in sight – is severely undermining its climate credentials. Liz Cookman reports

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