COP 28 Summit in Dubai: Climate advocates demand stronger language on fossil fuels
The latest COP28 draft outcome text released to negotiators in Dubai Monday evening dropped a call to ‘phaseout’ fossil fuels, prompting outcry from climate-vulnerable countries and civil society.
Guterres calls for phasing out fossil fuels to avoid climate ‘catastrophe’
Countries must phase out coal and other fossil fuels to avert climate “catastrophe”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Thursday in New York.
World has ‘gambled on fossil fuels and lost’, warns Guterres
New York: The current global economic paradigm of infinite growth based on using up a finite amount of resources, such as fossil fuels, will only deliver a “permanent triple whammy of inflation, climate chaos and conflict”, the UN chief warned on Friday.