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Dec 11, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Georgia Gratton |Bachar Halabi |Dafydd Ab Iago |Caroline Varin
Adds reaction from negotiators and NGOs throughoutA new draft negotiating text from the UN Cop 28 climate conference calls upon countries to take action including "reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner so as to achieve net zero by, before, or around 2050 in keeping with the science". It does not mention a phase-out of all fossil fuels.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin |Nader Itayim
Opec again pressed at the Cop 28 UN climate conference today for an all-energies approach to meet rising energy demand and ensure secure and affordable energy, as discussions on whether to commit to phase out fossil fuels take centre-stage at the summit. The group has long said that oil will play a key role for decades to come, despite calls to accelerate the energy transition to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
A certain anxiety is enveloping discussions at the Cop 28 UN climate conference about the phase-out of all fossil fuels, with parties aiming to finalise a text today ahead of ministerial negotiations starting next week. The text is described as "building blocks" for an official draft document for the first global stocktake — a measurement of progress towards Paris Agreement goals.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Dafydd Ab Iago |Caroline Varin
Published date: 06 December 2023 EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said today he wants the UN Cop 28 climate summit to mark "the beginning of the end of fossil fuels," and reiterated the bloc's position. He said the EU is at the event in Dubai "to negotiate an outcome to the global stocktake that sets a higher bar", and that countries must look to 2035 and prepare for the next round of climate commitments.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin |Michael Ball
Adds comments from Colombia, Brazil and NorwayA new working document for the first global stocktake — a measurement of progress towards Paris Agreement goals — released today has language on phasing out fossil fuels. But the three options currently on the table show that parties remain critically divided on the issue.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
The phasing out of fossil fuels is a "huge" topic at the Cop 28 UN climate summit and still needs to be clearly debated, according to Brazil's chief climate negotiator Andre Correa do Lagos. The discussion has domestic and international dimensions, do Lagos said, adding that the current international debate over whether fossil fuels should be phased out lacks structure. "People are talking about consumption, about abatement and many different solutions and proposals," he said.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
A new working document for the first global stocktake — a measurement of progress towards Paris Agreement goals — released today has language on phasing out fossil fuels. But the three options currently on the table show that parties remain critically divided on the issue. The text, still described as "building blocks" for an official draft, was produced by the co-chairs of the global stocktake discussions, "under their own authority", at the UN Cop 28 climate summit, underway in Dubai.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
The phasing out of fossil fuels will remain one of the "important" remaining issues when technical negotiations on the global stocktake move to ministerial level in the second week of the Cop 28 UN climate summit, EU negotiator Jacob Werksman said today. He said that, from a negotiator perspective, the global stocktake is "the one big deliverable for this Cop" and that it needed to cover all aspects of the Paris Agreement.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
Updates with Cop 28 president al-Jaber's quotes and IPCC chair Skea's quotesPresident of the Cop 28 UN climate conference Sultan al-Jaber said today that he is "very clear about" keeping the target to limit global warming to 1.5°C within reach, in response to controversy sparked by comments he made last month, with IPCC chair Jim Skea saying that he "understood" the science.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Caroline Varin
President of the Cop 28 UN climate conference Sultan Al-Jaber is "very clear about" the target to limit global warming to 1.5°C and "how fossil fuels are on the agenda", the summit's director-general Majid al-Suwaidi told reporters on Monday, in response to controversy sparked by comments Al-Jaber made last month.
