Cop climate summit to run overtime as fury mounts on fossil fuels
Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan was among those adamant that the draft deal will not be accepted by the EU unless significant changes are made.
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Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan was among those adamant that the draft deal will not be accepted by the EU unless significant changes are made.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 11, 2023 - US envoy John Kerry warned Tuesday that the UN's COP28 climate summit in Dubai was the world's last chance to keep its target for limiting global warming alive.
Minister John Silk says his country will not accept an outcome from COP28 that does not put the world back on track for a 1.5 degrees Celsius world.
DUBAI--The COP28 climate summit was hurtling towards overtime early on Tuesday, with negotiators awaiting a new draft deal after many countries criticized a previous version as too weak because it omitted a “phase-out” of fossil fuels.
As expected, the World Climate Change Conference in Dubai went into extra time on Tuesday. Conference President Sultan Al Jaber from the United Arab…