2023-06-13 13:14:58
To continue to exploit fossil fuels is to “sentence to death” whole sections of the population around the world, climate activist Greta Thunberg warned on Tuesday, urging public authorities to take more ambitious measures.
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It will be “impossible” to meet the 1.5 degree limit for global warming without a “rapid and fair phase-out of fossil fuels”, the climate activist told the press in Bonn, where a climate change conference is being held. until June 15, in preparation for COP28 in December.
If we don’t phase out fossil fuels, “it will be a death sentence for countless people. This is already a death sentence for countless people living on the front lines of the climate crisis,” the 20-year-old Swede warned.
Climate activists, scientists and negotiators are calling for a fossil fuel phase-out schedule to help limit global warming as greenhouse gas emissions hit record highs.
This subject will be one of the most discussed at COP28 to be held in December in Dubai.
“Fossil producing nations must commit at COP28 to collectively identify how to align fossil production” with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degree goal, urged Tina Stege, climate activist from the Marshall Islands.
“The money is there for the 1.5 terawatts of solar and wind power (to be installed) per year that we need,” she added.
When it comes to reducing greenhouse gases, there are two major camps: the European Union (Germany in particular), Great Britain, many developing countries and small island countries want to get out of oil quickly, gas and coal.
But the major oil and gas countries prefer to focus on reducing emissions, without abandoning the fossil fuels that generate them.
Sultan al-Jaber, boss of the national oil company of Abu Dhabi, is particularly singled out as president of COP28.
For Kenyan climate activist Eric Njuguna, the choice of this personality amounts to allowing “a mosquito (to) lead the fight against malaria”, he told the press.
Al-Jaber acknowledged last week that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels is “inevitable”.
The latter wants to present a roadmap for COP28 that includes a “global goal to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency and double clean hydrogen, all by 2030”.
The plan, however, does not include an explicit mention of eradicating the use of fossil fuels.
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