Africa-Press – Cape verde. The countries gathered at the climate summit approved today “by consensus” a decision that calls for a “transition” towards abandoning fossil fuels, announced the president of COP28, in Dubai.
At the opening of the closing plenary session, delegates adopted the decision prepared by the United Arab Emirates, which was applauded.
It is a “historic decision to accelerate climate action”, said Sultan Al Jaber, president of the UN conference.
“This is a historic and unprecedented feat”, stressed the president of COP28, thanking the delegations for the “hard work” carried out over the last two weeks and, especially, in the last hours, when the countries negotiated until the early hours of the morning to reach a consensus.
The Dubai Climate Summit (COP28) agreed to begin a transition away from fossil fuels, after two weeks of intense negotiations in which around 200 countries debated how to collectively face the climate crisis.
The countries represented at COP28 adopted on Wednesday the “Global Stocktake”, the agreement with which they intend to reinforce climate action to contain the rise in temperatures to no more than one and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels.
The agreement, approved by consensus in plenary, calls on States to begin a transition away from fossil fuels, “in an orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, with the aim of achieving the goal of net zero emissions by 2050 , according to science”.
At this summit, the priority was to pave the way for the abandonment of this type of energy for the European Union and other industrialized economies, as well as for countries highly vulnerable to climate change, as is the case in many developing countries.
Paving the way for the transition from these types of energy was the summit’s priority – for the European Union and other industrialized economies, as well as for countries highly vulnerable to climate change, such as many developing states.
However, until the plenary session, there was uncertainty at COP28 about whether an agreement marking the end of the fossil fuel era would be accepted by oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia
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