BBC: COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash

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COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash

11th December 2023, 02:16 EST

By Georgina Rannard
Climate reporter at COP28, Dubai

The UN climate talks in Dubai could be in jeopardy after some nations reacted furiously to a draft deal on fossil fuels they call "weak".

The draft removed language included in a previous text suggesting that fossil fuels could be "phased out”.

All 198 countries at the summit must agree or there is no deal.

Humans burning fossil fuels is driving global warming, risking millions of lives, but governments have never agreed how or when to stop using them.

A representative for the European Union called the draft "unacceptable" and said the bloc could walk away.

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1. nations that depend on something like 15% of the GDP from oil exploration, oil extraction

oil refining, oil exporting... should be excluded from the COP meetings except as observers and eventual signatories to whatever the rest of the planet wants.

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2. Embarrassing

The whole thing is almost shameful.