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"The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has declared phasing out
fossil fuels globally is central to Australia’s push to become a renewable
energy superpower, and named Saudi Arabia as a block to agreement on the issue
at the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai.
Bowen said the most important issue at the conference was reaching an agreement
that kept the goal of limiting heating to 1.5C within reach, and dealing with
fossil fuels was key to that.
It came as representatives from nearly all countries at the two-week summit
waited anxiously on the president of the Cop, Sultan Al Jaber, to release the
proposed text of a Cop28 agreement. The talks are scheduled to finish at 11am
Tuesday local time [6pm AEDT] but few expected the heavily contested
negotiations to meet that deadline.
Al Jaber convened a
majlis – a meeting in the traditional form of an elders’
conference in the United Arab Emirates – between all countries late on Sunday
in an attempt to reach consensus on points of deadlock, including whether
fossil fuels should be phased out or phased down.
Bowen told the
majlis that fossil fuels must have “no ongoing role to play in
our energy systems” if the world was to keep 1.5C alive.
“I speak as the climate and energy minister of one of the world’s largest
fossil fuel exporters,” he said. “We also live in the Pacific, and we are not
going to see our brothers and sisters inundated and their countries swallowed
by the seas.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
