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‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels
that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to
set another new record for global carbon emissions.

The new data, released
at the UN’s Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, indicates that the
planet-heating emissions from coal, oil and gas will rise by 0.8% in 2024.
In stark contrast, emissions have to fall by 43% by 2030 for the world to
have any chance of keeping to the 1.5C temperature target and limiting
“increasingly dramatic” climate impacts on people around the globe.

The world’s nations agreed at Cop28 in Dubai in 2023 to “transition away”
from fossil fuels, a decision hailed as a landmark given that none of the
previous 27 summits had called for restrictions on the primary cause of
global heating. On Monday, the Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber, told the
summit in Baku: “History will judge us by our actions, not by our
words.”

Guardian 13th Nov 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/12/cancel-drilling-north-sea-oilfields-court-greenpeace-uplift-rosebank-jackdaw

November 15, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change