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COP28 "Dream Outcome" For Fossil Fuel Industry; Disaster for Planet [1]
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Date: 2023-12-14
A day after nations agreed at COP 28 to a nonbinding transition away from fossil fuels, the UAE Consensus is being called a devastating failure for the planet and a dream come true for fossil fuel interests, The Guardian reports today.
“The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. “To ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ was weak tea at best. It’s like promising your doctor that you will ‘transition away from doughnuts’ after being diagnosed with diabetes.”
Mann said we need to “mend it not end it” in regard to the failure of nearly 30 years of negotiations at UNFCCC COPs to tackle global warming, saying they remain our sole method to negotiate global climate solutions. “But the failure of Cop28 to achieve any meaningful progress at a time when our window of opportunity to limit warming below catastrophic levels is closing, is a source of great concern.”
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