COP28 president urges countries to set plans for fossil fuel transition
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The United Arab Emirates, host of last year’s COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to take action in transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Intense negotiations last December saw countries agree to move away from fossil fuels in COP28’s UAE Consensus document, aiming to limit the worst impacts of climate change. Now, nations must lay out plans for how they’ll get there.
“We must now turn an unprecedented agreement into unprecedented action and results,” COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber said on Tuesday.
Countries must update their plans to tackle climate change, known as nationally determined contributions or NDCs, said Al Jaber, who also leads the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, at the Paris headquarters of the International Energy Agency.
The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which saw countries commit to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) above preindustrial levels, requires that countries update their NDCs every five years.
Earlier this month, the UAE said they would create a “troika” with Azerbaijan and Brazil, the hosts of the next two U.N. climate summits, to push countries to set ambitious emissions-cutting goals ahead of the next 2025 deadline.
