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“We must reach the peak of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 at the latest,” defended 18 countries.
Posted on 07/14/2023 23:04
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A coal mine in Neukieritzsch (Germany), May 16, 2023. (JAN WOITAS / DPA / AFP)
The call aims to accelerate action on climate change five months ahead of COP28. An 18-country coalition led by the Marshall Islands called for an “urgent phase-out of fossil fuels” on Friday, July 14, after a climate summit in Brussels. “We must accelerate the global energy transition away from fossil fuels,” the declared goal of the G7, and “we must reach the peak of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 at the latest,” reads the text signed by the ministers of Germany, France, Senegal, Colombia and several island states .
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“This requires systemic transformations across sectors, driven by an urgent phase-out of fossil fuels, starting with a rapid decline in their production and use this decade,” they wrote in a final statement of the 7th Ministerial Summit on Climate Change (MoCA). in Brussels.
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These claims highlight negotiating lines clashing in preparations for the UN climate conference in Dubai, where humanity must agree on the means to salvage the Paris Agreement’s endangered goal of warming to “well below 2°C.” limit. compared to the pre-industrial era and if possible to 1.5°C. “We need to phase out ‘unabated’ fossil fuels well before 2050, i.
What is meant by the term ‘unabated’ is likely to be hotly debated ahead of COP28, and the eighteen ministers warn: ‘Abatement Technologies should not be used as a green light to proceed. ‘ The expansion of fossil fuels (…) and it should be recognized that they play a minimal role in the ‘decarbonization’ of energy.
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