COP28 live: Fury at climate summit as draft deal criticised as too weak on fossil fuels - BBC News
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The EU and US lead criticism of latest draft agreement, as a promise to "phase out" fossil fuels is removed.
  • jray4559@lemmy.sdf.org
    213·
    11 months ago

    Promise to phase out fossil fuels removed from a non-binding draft agreement.

    Clearly, climate change was actually gonna be solved if they left it in. Whole thing is a giant waste of time like Paris and Copenhagen and everything else before.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      18·
      11 months ago

      Montreal and Kyoto protocols did something, and Paris and Copenhagen are at least things we can point to when politicians don’t live up to their promises.

      If we can’t even set up a meaningful goal here then this one is useless, except that I can use it to point to Dubai failing at doing anything but placating fossil fuel interests. From there, the rest of the world should just focus on transitioning away from OPEC reliance by investing in renewable energy sources.

      E: fixed a word

  • Spendrill
    13·
    11 months ago

    Did nobody see the thread yesterday about Saudi Arabia blocking this? You didn’t need to read the thread or the article, the headline was enough. The fix was in. It was probably in from before the last COP summit.