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Ahead of COP28 climate talks, fossil fuels increasingly under fire
(Context, 22 Sep 2023) COP28 faces extra pressure to shift world from fossil fuels after many leaders criticise oil, coal and gas at U.N. climate summit.
Heading into the COP28 conference in Dubai, this week's U.N. Climate Ambition Summit broke fresh territory by naming and shaming the fossil fuel industry for its role in the climate crisis, according to advocates tracking the talks in New York.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' summit – though light on ambitious new commitments – featured many speakers who called for a swift drawdown of fossil fuel use, which analysts say will be needed to meet goals under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
"It was a first time I had been in a room where I did feel this shift around the ability to say 'fossil fuel,' and say (it) again and again," said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands.
That contrasts with the past when fossil fuels might only be mentioned by a lone activist group, Stege said Thursday at a Climate Week NYC event hosted by Climate Analytics, a research group. "You didn't hear a chorus."
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