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Global push for commitment to phase out fossil fuels gathers pace ahead of Cop28
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Campaigners are ramping up efforts to put an undertaking to stop burning not just coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, but also oil and gas on the UN agenda ahead of the Cop28 summit in Dubai in late November, the Observer has learned.
The global stocktake – an assessment of whether countries are meeting the emissions pledges made under the 2015 Paris agreement – recommended “transformations across all sectors and contexts, including scaling up renewable energy while phasing out all unabated fossil fuels”.
It’s a major pushback on the massive lobby from the oil and gas industry [which has been] trying to greenwash new developments, when the science says this is completely contradictory to the world achieving the Paris limit of 1.5C [of global heating above pre-industrial levels].”
But as the global stocktake has been cited numerous times by the host country, the United Arab Emirates, as the foundation for the talks, many believe it will strongly boost the chances that leaders will have to discuss phasing fossil fuels out completely.
“After this official report, this process will lose all credibility if fossil fuel phase out isn’t a central agenda item in Dubai,” said Romain Ioualalen of pressure group Oil Change International.
“If Cop28 fails to deliver a clear roadmap for a rapid and equitable phase out of all fossil fuels, the advent of the renewable energy era, and adequate finance to the most vulnerable countries, it will be an utter failure.”
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