But success in phasing out fossil fuels – the key to halting climate change – once again seemed beyond the international community’s reach. However, behind closed doors, fossil fuel nations forced other countries to fight tenaciously to maintain the inadequate status quo. We should not mention fossil fuels,” said one delegation during final negotiations resulting in the final text duly failing to mention phasing out fossil fuels and instead containing a provision to boost “low-emissions energy”. When getting off fossil fuels is so crucial to people’s survival, the world should be racing full speed ahead to achieve the 1.5-degree Celsius target, but instead, it’s strolling. But we’ve shown with the loss and damage fund that we can do the impossible.

Source: The Nation November 28, 2022 08:15 UTC