{"id":196874,"date":"2023-12-12T10:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196874"},"modified":"2023-12-12T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:44:58","slug":"cop28-scrambles-to-agree-new-draft-deal-after-dismay-over-fossil-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/cop28-scrambles-to-agree-new-draft-deal-after-dismay-over-fossil-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"COP28 scrambles to agree new draft deal after dismay over fossil fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> COP28 scrambles to agree a new draft deal after dismay over failing to call for fossil fuels to be phased out<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Insiders accused Saudi Arabia of leaning on COP28&#8217;s president\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The proposed deal lists actions nations &#8216;could&#8217; take, but are not bound to<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The deal also does not mention &#8216;oil&#8217; or &#8216;natural gas&#8217; in the 21-page document\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates, host of the COP28 climate summit, said Tuesday it would seek consensus with a new draft deal after wide criticism of language on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Majid Al Suwaidi, COP28 director general, played down the attacks on the text released Monday, saying the Emirati hosts were testing countries&#8217; &#8216;red lines&#8217; and were working on another draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to work on how we put their views into the text in a way that everybody can be happy with, and that we can move forward to achieving the goals&#8217; of checking warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think that what happened with our text was really that we were on it having honest, practical, pragmatic conversations about where people&#8217;s red lines really were,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The point is to get a consensus.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/08\/78858561-12853809-image-a-9_1702371007238.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One protester condemns the use of fossil fuels during COP28\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules of the UN climate convention, agreements need consensus of all participants &#8211; nearly 200 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has led the charge against calls backed by vulnerable nations and Western powers to phase out oil, gas and coal, the biggest culprit in the planet&#8217;s climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve known for a long time that the language around fossil fuels is complicated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are those who want phase-out, there are those who want phase-down. There are those who want different formulations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The point is to get a consensus, and we don&#8217;t want one formulation that causes blockages in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators are already working past a deadline set by the Emiratis to complete work by the 13-day conference&#8217;s official close at 11 am (0700 GMT) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all would like to finish on time, but we all want to get the most ambitious outcome possible. That&#8217;s our singular goal,&#8221; Suwaidi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kerry, who was confronted by climate activists as he left the meeting, described the pursuit of the 1.5C target as a &#8216;war of survival&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/09\/78858749-12853809-The_proposed_deal_set_out_a_range_of_actions_that_nations_could_-a-10_1702371930225.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The proposed deal set out a range of actions that nations &#8216;could&#8217; take to cut greenhouse emissions to net-zero by 2050, but were not bound to<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I, like most of you here, refuse to be part of a charade&#8217; of not phasing out fossil fuels, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some Pacific Island nations argued the text surrounding the 1.5C warming target amounted to a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For us this is a matter of survival. We cannot put loopholes in our children&#8217;s futures,&#8217; said Tuvalu&#8217;s delegation chief Seve Paeniu, who added the proposed text &#8216;doesn&#8217;t even come close to delivering 1.5 as a north star&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Cedric Schuster of Samoa, who chairs the Alliance of Small Island States, said its members felt their voices were not being heard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We will not sign our death certificate,&#8217; he said. &#8216;We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have been asked throughout this process, what is at stake if these negotiations do not return a strong outcome that keeps 1.5 alive. How can you not understand &#8211; it is our very survival that is at stake?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Zhao Yingmin, China&#8217;s vice minister for ecology and environment, said at the meeting that &#8216;the draft fails to address the concerns of developing countries on some key issues&#8217; and in particular the idea that greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the criticisms and allegations, Saudi Arabia and other oil-states remained steadfast in their approach to the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s representative at the climate summit, Noura Alissa, publicly said the deal &#8216;must work for all&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It must be relevant, it must make to sense to accelerate action for every single country in this room, not some over others,&#8217; she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The talks are due to end on Tuesday, when a revised text is expected to be presented, but many observers expect it to run over.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12853809\/COP28-scrambles-agree-new-draft-deal-dismay-failing-call-fossil-fuels-phased-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP28 scrambles to agree a new draft deal after dismay over failing to call for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":196873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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