No official commitment to abandon the use of fossil fuels
At the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, it remains questionable whether a commitment to abandon the use of fossil fuels will be reached. A new draft text for the planned final document circulated on Tuesday initially only lists various options. One of them is not to mention the topic at all.
The most far-reaching option calls for an "orderly and fair phase-out of fossil fuels". A third option calls for "accelerating efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the absence of carbon capture and storage facilities and rapidly reduce their use to achieve carbon neutrality in the energy system by or around the middle of the century".
The future use of fossil fuels is one of the main points of contention at the COP. Oil- and gas-exporting countries in particular are resisting calls for a phase-out, as are a number of other countries that still use fossil fuels on a large scale. Conversely, numerous other countries, including Germany and the EU, are pushing for the phase-out perspective to be enshrined in the final document of the climate conference.
The draft text also contains various options for the continued use of coal. These range from abandoning coal-fired power plants without capturing emissions by the end of the decade and abandoning new coal-fired power plants to reducing the use of such power plants by 75 percent by 2030 (compared to 2019). Another option here is to refrain from making a statement to this effect.
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Source: www.ntv.de
