COP28 ends with agreement to move away from fossil fuels
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Fossil fuels will not be ‘phased out’, but at the historic moment of the COP28 climate change summit in Dubai, there will be a rapid transition away from the use of oil, gas and coal to achieve net zero by 2050. The world has agreed that it must be done. United Arab Emirates.
On 13 December at 11:00 local time, countries will “accelerate action to transition away from fossil fuels in our energy systems in a just, orderly and fair manner and to achieve net zero in this critical decade”. The text of the agreement was adopted calling for this. By 2050 in line with science.
“It has taken us 30 years to reach the beginning of the end of fossil fuels,” Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union’s climate change commissioner, told the summit’s plenary session.
The agreement, known as the “Global Stocktake,” requires countries to take steps to decarbonize their energy systems, including tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency improvement rates by 2030. It also calls for a series of measures to be taken.
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