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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Veteran negotiators at the United Nations climate talks said Saturday that the push to rid the world of fossil fuels has given them the momentum they need. a powerful enemy: oil.
At the end of Friday, many news outlets reported that the leader of OPEC, the oil giant, wrote to the member countries at the beginning of this week, urging them to block any language that excludes or reduces oil. The news had the effect of a thunderbolt, shining a light on the host and petrostate United Arab Emirates, which clearly has oil but also wants to show the world that it is possible then lead the conference to an important result.
Environmentalists are still looking at the signs that the fossil fuel-powered car is going around.
“I think they’re worried,” said Alden Meyer, an analyst at the E3G weather forecast. years and block the process.”
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson said, “They are scared. I think they are worried.”
Robinson, the chairman of the retired leadership group The Elders, is now a well-known weatherman. He said, OPEC is concerned “to find hope.” Last month publicly clashed with the president of the COP28 negotiationsSultan al-Jaber, who is also the CEO of the Emirates oil company.
China’s climate representative, Xie Zhenhua, called this year’s climate meeting the “most difficult” of his long career. He said, the controversial issue can be resolved in one or two days.
Germany’s climate representative, Jennifer Morgan, suggested that any calls for blocking a deal would be felt most by small countries affected by sea level rise caused by global warming. world.
“Right now, the countries here are fighting for their lives. Small islands, and many countries here, are actively participating in this discussion in a real way,” he said in an interview. “And I think it’s obviously irresponsible to have a situation that could mean – that is – the life and death of many millions of people.”
But not all developing countries felt that way.
“The development of our countries depends, in fact, on the use of fossil fuels,” said Issifi Boureima of Niger, the secretary general of the Sahel Region Climate Commission. “It is not easy for countries like us to accept a document that agrees to stop using oil today. It’s not easy, because what do we do after that?
“I think the power of multilateral diplomacy, we must avoid egoism, egoism of the north towards the south.”
The General Director of the COP28, Majid al-Suwaidi, dismissed the OPEC letter, saying that the UAE team that is running the climate conference is meeting with negotiators to reach a deal. terrible. The oil tanker has no official connection to the climate negotiations.
“I feel confident that we will have a good result that will surprise you,” said Suwaidi to the Associated Press.
OPEC did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Protesters on Saturday in an emergency blocked OPEC’s announcement on the price talks, and called for an immediate end to oil.
As discussions continued about the book and how to transition from oil, the world got closer to deciding where to hold next year’s climate conference, a petrostate. three. Azerbijian announced that COP29 will be hosted in Baku, where one of the first oil fields in history has grown. But the UN officials said that it has not been completed because the necessary documents have not been submitted.
The conference presidency is crying trade after trade, most of them include hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of pledges, but they have more used the edges of the main issue of reducing windows. When it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, a key group of scientists who analyze pledges, actions and global warming said in a report Saturday that not all action is too much. .
“The Presidency COP28 has made a big deal about the many voluntary efforts, while using a vague and weak position on the central issue of the end of the oil,” said the Manager Chief of Climate Analytics Bill Hare, author of the report. .
Saturday’s firestorm of controversy came as protests erupted at Dubai’s convention center. multiplywith the “Day of Work” urging countries to act decisively to stop climate change and officials from different countries spoke more urgently in official meetings. The OPEC letter has added fuel to their anger.
“With current policies, the planet is on track to 2.9 (degrees Celsius, 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit above industrial temperature) in the future. We cannot adjust to high temperatures; the loss and damage will be incalculable. It will be our death sentence,” said the minister of natural resources of the Marshall Islands John Silk.
“We are not silent in our graves,” he said.
The rapid depletion of fossil fuels has become a major topic of discussion as they approach their final days. Activists and experts have warned that the world must immediately reduce the use of oil, gas and coal that cause dangerous heat.
Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, called the letter of December 6 from the Secretary General of OPEC Haitham Al Ghais “shameful” and said “the writing is on the wall for dirty energy.”
The negotiators are clarifying the language in a key document called Global Stocktake. It will represent the most progress the world has made since the 2015 Paris agreement – in which nations agreed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times – and what should be done on the other side.
The new language proposed on the way to stop the heat released on Friday afternoon strengthened the options for reducing fossil fuels that the negotiators can choose from. Four of the five options require a sequence of accelerated discharge.
The interviewers are researching where the interviews will be on Saturday evening.
“This is also a good opportunity for countries that hope to try to find landing zones that we really need,” said the Danish environment minister. Dan Jørgensen.
When asked if he was worried about the outcome of the ceremony, he replied: “Very worried.”
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Associated Press reporter Olivia Zhang contributed.
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