UAE supports fossil fuel cuts, but discussion between oil and gas producers and developed countries at COP28 is not over
Kyiv • UNN
The UAE, which is the leader of COP28, supports zero emissions by 2050, but faces different views among oil producers and developed countries, making it difficult to reach a consensus on reducing fossil fuel use.
United Arab Emirates, which preside over the COP28 climate talks this year, declare their support for the goal of zero emissions by 2050, which requires to reduce consumption and production of fossil fuels. However, the positions of developed and oil and gas producing countries participating in the climate summit participating in the climate summit differ significantly. This is reported by UNN, referring to Bloomberg and Focus.
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The UAE supported the draft plan, according to which measures should be taken that will affect global temperature forecasts . First of all, it is about about a "fair" and "orderly" reduction in the use of of fossil fuels. The text of the plan, as Bloomberg points out, also refers to a "rapid" phase-out of coal with restrictions on new production electricity generation.
Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28, who has been accused of a conflict of interest because he is also the head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. to include innovative language on fossil fuels in the final text. fuels.
We need to find consensus and common ground on fossil fuels
But this plan is becoming a "thorny" issue at the COP28 summit to be held in Dubai, as some oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, are fiercely resisting the steps aimed at ending the use of energy sources that polluting energy sources.
In addition, the EU, the United States and small island states have been among those who have insisted on a phased fossil fuel phase-out, albeit with different disagreements on issues such as such as the role that carbon capture and storage should play.
Other countries, such as Brazil such as Brazil support the idea that developed countries should be the first to start fossil fuels.
Addendum
On Sunday, Vanuatu's climate minister Vanuatu's Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu expressed concern that some countries are still trying to are still trying to prevent a consensus on phasing out fossil fuels on the climate At the same time, according to him, some countries are still trying to prevent a consensus on the phase-out of fossil fuels at the UN climate summit COP 28, some countries are trying to prevent consensus.
As noted by the the German socio-political magazine Focus, the global climate conference, which is attended by 197 countries, demonstrated the possibility of reaching an agreement - the driving forces are primarily The High Ambition Coalition, an association of Latin American and and the Association of Latin American and Caribbean Island Countries, which are most affected by global warming.
Representatives of different countries, including Colombia, Spain and Germany, called on Saudi Arabia to "allow itself to transform and restructure itself to transform and restructure its energy system".
At the same time, the issue of agreeing on a clear phasing out of fossil fuels, 24 hours before the end of the summit remains open.
As a reminder
Earlier, UNN reported that the participants of the climate summit are arguing about a possible agreement on a possible agreement on the phase-out of fossil fuels. Against the background of this situation, the executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Simon Steele called for an end to the tactic of blocking the agreement. to stop the tactics of blocking the agreement.
