{"id":2752,"date":"2023-05-04T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2023-05-04T07:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:57:47","slug":"cop28-president-says-fossil-fuels-still-play-a-role-raising-concerns-about-climate-summit-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/cop28-president-says-fossil-fuels-still-play-a-role-raising-concerns-about-climate-summit-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"COP28 president says fossil fuels still play a role, raising concerns over climate summit targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/source\/instances\/source-h_a28592e1336fab579684ebe2a4f77845@published\">The president of the UN COP28 climate conference said he sees a future for fossil fuels - even as scientists say the world must move quickly to clean energy - in remarks that sparked fears of a backsliding on climate commitments. Sultan Al Jaber, who will oversee the COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai in November, called for a focus on technologies to capture planet-warming pollution from coal, oil and gas. &quot;We know that fossil fuels will continue to play a role in meeting global energy requirements for the foreseeable future,&quot; Al Jaber said Wednesday at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, a conference attended by representatives from about 40 countries to help set the COP28 agenda. He said the world needed to &quot;face some realities&quot; and embrace an energy transition that included &quot;all energy sources&quot;. &quot;Our goal should be to ensure the gradual reduction of emissions from all sectors,&quot; added Al Jaber. It is a departure from what other countries have called for. In March, European countries agreed to support the global phase-out of fossil fuels in a text setting out their priorities for COP28. &quot;The move to a climate-neutral economy will require a global phase-out of non-renewable fossil fuels,&quot; the text says. More than 80 countries backed a pledge to phase out oil, coal and gas at COP27 in Egypt last year, but Saudi Arabia and other oil and gas-producing countries opposed it. Tasneem Essop, executive director of the Climate Action Network, an alliance of environmental groups, told CNN that Al Jaber was talking about the &quot;foreseeable future of fossil fuels&quot; and &quot;the trajectory of emissions reductions.&quot; &quot;A plan to end the fossil fuel era should be central to the discussions and outcomes of COP28,&quot; she said. Nils Bartsch, head of oil and gas research at the German non-profit Urgewald, told CNN that the world faces &quot;an absolute carbon budget of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Reducing the emissions intensity of oil and gas extraction doesn&#039;t change that \u2013 it just helps drain our budget a little more slowly.\u201d Scientists said the world should do its utmost to keep below 1.5 degrees of global warming above pre-industrial levels, and nations they work to keep this goal within reach at annual climate summits. <em>(<span class=\"byline__name\">Laura Paddison<\/span> , CNN)<\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the UN COP28 climate conference said he sees a future for fossil fuels - even as scientists say the world must quickly transition to clean energy - in remarks that raised concerns about a backsliding on climate commitments. Sultan Al Jaber, who will oversee the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai in November, called for a focus on [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop28-cop29-cop30-cop31","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}