Countries meeting at the climate summit approved this Wednesday by “consensus” a decision that calls for a “transition” away from fossil fuels, the COP28 president announced in Dubai.
At the opening of the final plenary session, delegates adopted a decision prepared by the United Arab Emirates, which was met with applause.
It is a “historic decision to accelerate action to combat climate change,” said Sultan Al Jaber, president of the UN conference.
“This is a historic and unprecedented feat,” the COP28 president said, thanking delegations for their “hard work” over the past two weeks and especially in the final hours as countries negotiated until the early hours of the morning. in the morning to reach a consensus.
The Dubai Climate Summit (COP28) agreed to begin the transition away from fossil fuels after two weeks of intense negotiations in which some 200 countries discussed how to collectively confront the climate crisis.
Countries represented at COP28 adopted the Global Stocktake on Wednesday, an agreement through which they intend to strengthen climate action to limit temperature rise to no more than one and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels.
The agreement, approved by consensus in plenary, calls on states to begin the transition away from fossil fuels “in an orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade to achieve the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.” in science.”
The priority at this summit was to pave the way for a phase-out of this form of energy for the European Union and other industrialized countries, as well as for countries highly vulnerable to climate change, as is the case in many developing countries.
Paving the way for a transition away from these types of energy was a priority at the summit – for the European Union and other industrialized countries, as well as for countries highly vulnerable to climate change, such as many developing countries.
However, before the plenary session at COP28, there was uncertainty over whether the agreement marking the end of the fossil fuel era would be accepted by oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia.