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COP 28 ‘s fundamentally weak agreement to “call on parties to contribute” to action on climate change

The president of COP28 is styling this as a moment in history. The point at
which the world changed course and began to really bear down on the
overwhelming source of the emissions warming our planet: coal, oil and gas.
And it really is significant progress that for the first time fossil fuels
and the need to “transition” away from them has been included in the
text.

Campaigners will say it is too little too late. But the world coming
together to acknowledge that fact will have consequences in the real world.
Would you want to bet your life savings on a new coal-fired power plant
after today?

But it is true that the agreement is fundamentally weak. Why?
Because the strongest language the UAE could get the world to agree was to
“call on parties to contribute” to a series of actions to tackle
climate change.

BBC 13th Dec 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-67674841

December 17, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change