As UN climate talks near crunch time, activists plan 'day of action' to press negotiators
Global Day of Action" with events at United Nations-led talks in Dubai and around the world.
If activists needed any additional energy, they may have gotten it with reports that OPEC's chief had urged its oil-producing members to reject any agreement that targets fossil fuels for a speedy phase-out. It's the central issue as talks head into their final days, as activists and experts have warned that the world must quickly reduce use of the oil, gas and coal that is causing dangerous warming.
Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, called the Dec.
6 letter from OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais, reported by several news organizations, «shameful» and said «the writing is on the wall for dirty energy.»
«The reality is if the world is going to save itself, it cannot be held back by a small band of countries that control the world's oil supply,» Adow said in a statement. «Fossil fuels keep power in the hands of the few that happen to have them.
Renewables give energy to anyone with a solar panel or a wind turbine.»
OPEC didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
At stake in the final days of COP28 is the language of a key document called the Global Stocktake. It will say how much progress the world had made since the 2015 Paris agreement — where nations agreed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times — and what it has to do next.
New proposed language on how to curb warming released Friday afternoon strengthened the options for a phase-out of fossil fuels that negotiators could choose from.
