The U.N. climate body released a draft text for the upcoming COP28 summit in Dubai, outlining potential actions for countries to lower emissions. Notably absent from the document is a direct call to phase out fossil fuels, a significant point previously urged by the European Union and climate-vulnerable developing nations. The draft emphasizes the necessity for substantial, swift reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting measures including:
(a) Tripling global renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency improvement rates by 2030; (b) Phasing down unabated coal use and restricting new coal power generation; (c) Advancing global efforts towards net-zero emissions energy systems using zero and low carbon fuels by mid-century; (d) Promoting zero and low emissions technologies, such as renewables, nuclear, carbon capture, and low carbon hydrogen, to replace unabated fossil fuels in energy systems; (e) Reducing fossil fuel consumption and production in a fair and orderly manner to achieve net zero around 2050; (f) Significantly cutting non-CO2 emissions, particularly methane, by 2030; (g) Reducing emissions in road transport by developing infrastructure and deploying zero and low emission vehicles; (h) Eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that lead to excessive consumption, prioritizing energy poverty and just transitions.
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