At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense to save a planet in peril
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At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense to save a planet in peril

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels for a dangerously warming planet. COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber said he was “quite positive, hopeful and optimistic” that the summit could bring a “paradigm shift centered around and based on the science.” Members of the four pairs of high level special teams — who will work with negotiators from nearly 200 countries — said they too thought they’d be able to get the job done. “We need an agreement, so I am optimistic.” EU countries, some Latin American countries and the small island countries often victimized by climate change are aligned on calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels, negotiators said. “I felt from the consultations that very many parties understand that we have to have a real progress on mitigation,” climate talk for emissions cuts, said Norway Foreign Minister Espen Barth-Eide. He worried that it would not tell people clearly “who needs to do what when.” “We have never been closer to an agreement on a fossil fuel phase-out,” said Oil Change International’s Romain Ioualalen.

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