2023-07-14 14:49:00
A coalition of 18 countries led by the Marshall Islands called on Friday for “an urgent exit from fossil fuels” and “a peak in greenhouse gases by 2025” at the end of a climate summit in Brussels. five months from COP28.
“We must accelerate the global energy transition away from fossil fuels”, stated objective of the G7, and “we must reach the peak of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 at the latest”, says the text signed by ministers representing Germany, France, Senegal, Colombia and several island states.
“This requires systemic transformations across all sectors, driven by an urgent exit from fossil fuels, beginning with a rapid decline in their production and use in this decade,” they wrote in a final statement from the 7th Ministerial Summit for Climate Action (MoCA) in Brussels.
These assertions draw in hollow the lines of negotiations which clash in the preparations for the UN climate conference in Dubai, where humanity must agree on the means to save the objective in danger of the agreement of Paris: contain warming “well below 2°C” compared to the pre-industrial period and if possible to 1.5°C.
“We must eliminate + unabated + fossil fuels well before 2050”, that is to say not backed by carbon capture or storage devices, European Commissioner for the Environment Frans Timmermans, also a signatory to the this declaration, during a speech in Spain.
What is meant by the English term “unabated” promises to be fiercely debated between now and COP28 and the eighteen ministers warn: “Emission reduction and depollution technologies (“abatement technologies” in English) should not be used as a green light for the continued expansion of fossil fuels (…) and should be recognized as having only a minimal role to play in the decarbonisation” of energy.
Thursday in Brussels, the Emirati president of COP28 Sultan al-Jaber presented his plan to hope to obtain an ambitious agreement in Dubai on the acceleration of the energy transition, without however deciding on a temporal objective for the exit from fossil fuels. “I don’t have a magic wand, I don’t want to invent dates that aren’t justified” for lack of sufficient development of low-carbon energies to meet global growth, he said in an interview with AFP. Among the concrete targets he proposed: triple the capacity of renewables in the world by 2030, to 11,000 gigawatts, double the improvement in energy efficiency by 2030 and double the production of hydrogen to 180 million tonnes by 2030.
With AFP
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