"Failure to agree #FossilFuel phase-out at #Cop28 ‘will push world into #climate breakdown’
#UK former climate chief Alok #Sharma says phase-out crucial to limit #GlobalWarming to 1.5C
Failure to agree a phase-out of #FossilFuels at the #UN Cop28 climate #summit would push the #world beyond the crucial 1.5C temperature limit and into climate breakdown, the UK’s former climate chief has warned.
Alok Sharma, who was president of the #Cop26 summit in Glasgow, said it was vital that governments made a clear commitment in the next few days to eliminate #coal, #oil and #gas.
“If you’re going to keep 1.5C alive, you’re going to have to have language on a phase-out of fossil fuels,” he told the Observer in an interview. “And you’re going to need to accompany that with a credible implementation plan.”
He urged governments to act. “We are running out of time. The window on 1.5C is closing fast, and unless we are willing to act now, with the urgency that this issue demands, we will lose that 1.5C,” he said. “We are literally in the last chance saloon to save our children’s future.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/09/failure-to-agree-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-at-cop28-will-push-world-into-climate-breakdown
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