Phase out fossil fuels, nations urged
COP28 is pivotal as global emissions are still rising
COP28 is pivotal as global emissions are still rising
The United Nations climate conference opens in Dubai on Thursday with nations urged to increase the pace of action on global warming and phase out fossil fuels, amid intense scrutiny of oil-rich hosts United Arab Emirates.
"Obviously, I am strongly in favor of language that includes (a) phaseout, even with a reasonable time framework," UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Agence France-Presse on the eve of the summit, before flying to Dubai.
The two-week-long climate negotiations being held this year in the glitzy Gulf city come at a pivotal moment, with emissions still rising and this year likely to be the hottest in human history.
The UN and host UAE say these talks, known as COP28, will be the most important since Paris in 2015, when nations agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius since the preindustrial era, and preferably to a safer limit of 1.5C.
Scientists say the world is not on track to achieve these targets and nations must make faster and deeper cuts to emissions to avert the most disastrous impacts of climate change.
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