At the climate summit, for the first time in history, a decision was made to move away from the use of coal, oil and gas and to increase nuclear energy capacity.
World leaders attending the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai agreed on a climate transition away from fossil fuels for the first time in history. Sky News reported this on Wednesday, December 13.
It was noted that the relevant document was published by the UN climate body, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, after a long debate at the summit, which lasted until Wednesday morning.
“Let’s finish what we started. Our final agreement includes fossil fuels for the first time in history,” said COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber. He also called the content of the agreement “historic”.
However, this agreement is not legally binding. But its content calls on all countries to stop using fossil fuels for the first time in nearly 30 years of COP climate summits.
The text of the agreement covers 21 pages and contains more than 200 points. It calls on countries to do their part to move away from fossil fuels. This is the first time the agreement has specified reductions in the use of coal, oil and gas to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C (as agreed at the Paris summit in 2015).
The agreement recognizes that emissions from fossil fuel use will increase by 2025 in developed countries, and may increase even in developing countries.
Also, as part of the global climate summit COP28, more than 20 countries signed a declaration stating that they are committed to tripling the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050.
Let’s remember that last year the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted that Russia’s war against Ukraine will rapidly accelerate the development of renewable energy sources around the world.
The IEA predicts the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era
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