COP28: Differences add fuel to hot topic of tackling fossils
Paris Agreement goals, however there is little agreement on what needs to be done to get back on track.
Differences remain on how to tackle fossil fuels, emphasis on coal as negotiators continue with their efforts to narrow differences before ministers take over at the end of the week.
The global stock take is the main deliverable of the Dubai talks. It is the ambition mechanism of the Paris Agreement, where countries collectively assess progress across all pillars — emissions reduction, adapting to impacts of climate change, loss and damage, means of implementation, including finance.
The text released early morning on Tuesday puts together several options representing country or negotiating group positions.
There has been little progress in finding compromise positions that would bridge these options. Progress on details across options is uneven.
Adaptation continues to lag mitigation in terms of details.
On mitigation or emissions reduction, language on renewable energy and energy efficiency augmentation has been provided as an option but agreement on including language on fossil fuels phase out eludes. several options have been included ranging from silence on fossil fuels, focus on clean energy systems, abatement options like carbon capture and storage, focus on coal phase out to phase out of all fossil fuels.
By end of day negotiators were back working on the text attempting to find landing zones or at the very least reduce options.
