The Climáximo group, responsible for numerous protests against fossil fuels in Portugal, does not believe in the agreement reached at COP28. The group’s spokesperson claims that the decision taken in Dubai is nothing more than a false solution that refutes scientific reports.
“This agreement does not bind anything to anyone, as in fact has been the case with all agreements at all COPs. It only talks about false solutions that, on the one hand, do not recognize in the text the scientific reports that systematically explain how they are failing. colossally, but on the other hand, they have to continue benefiting from the fossil economy. That is why the COP text has been called by several local organizations as a death certificate. This is the COP with more corporate lobby fossils than ever. , There are seven times more indigenous representatives and it exceeds the delegates of practically all countries. 2023 is effectively the year with the most emissions in history. They do not have a concrete plan to reduce emissions and right now, in Portugal, Climate Change is still the only group with a concrete plan to reduce these emissions,” says TSF Noah Zino.
The movement’s spokesperson regrets that countries and the European Union continue to profit from fossil fuels and warns that there is a lot to “undo.”
“Part of the European Union and all the institutions that are involved right now with emissions are actively choosing to continue emitting more, they are exporting emissions to other countries and blaming them for the emissions, like China, they are playing accounting tricks and trying to throw false solutions, such as the issue of hydrogen and the issue of low-emission fuels that do not exist. The fundamental issue is that these institutions, if they continue to profit from the climate crisis and produce the climate crisis, are declaring war on people. and they continue to benefit from their deaths,” he says.
The Climáximo spokesperson also guarantees that the group will intensify its protest actions in the coming months.
“A few days ago we held an open assembly in Lisbon, where people were able to gather and they told us that there are many priorities for the climate justice movement and that we cannot stop resisting, people have to unite more and more because they don’t have a plan, in fact they have a plan to continue doing what they are doing and because this is really an issue of people’s living conditions that cannot be ignored and so yes, let’s continue with actions, actions and actions that manage to address the crisis. climate at the center of public debate,” he highlights.
This is the first climate agreement on fossil fuels. The consensus was reached after, this morning, the COP28 presidency, led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), presented a new document that mentions the transition towards the end of all fossil fuels with the aim of achieving neutrality of carbon dioxide by 2050.
“We have the foundation to realize transformative change,” said COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber, emphasizing: “This is a historic and unprecedented achievement.”
“We should be proud of our historic achievement and the United Arab Emirates, my country, is rightly proud of its role in contributing to this progress,” he added.
The Dubai Climate Summit (COP28) agreed to begin a transition towards fossil fuels, after two weeks of intense negotiations in which around 200 countries debated how to collectively confront the climate crisis.
The countries represented at COP28 adopted on Wednesday the “Global Balance”, the agreement with which they intend to strengthen climate action to contain the increase in temperatures to no more than one and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels.
The agreement, approved by consensus in plenary, calls on States to begin a transition away from fossil fuels, “in an orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, with the aim of achieving the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. according to science”.
At this summit, the priority was to pave the way for the abandonment of this type of energy by the European Union and other industrialized economies, as well as countries highly vulnerable to climate change, as is the case of many developing countries.
The priority of the summit was to pave the way for the transition from this type of energy, for the European Union and other industrialized economies, as well as for countries highly vulnerable to climate change, such as many developing states.
However, until the plenary session, there was uncertainty at COP28 over whether an agreement marking the end of the fossil fuel era would be accepted by oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia.
The first draft of the UAE text caused controversy on Monday because it did not call for “an exit” from fossil fuels, the combustion of which since the 19th century is largely responsible for the current global temperature rise of 1.2°C compared with the previous era. -industrial era.
“We are making progress,” US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday night as he headed into another round of talks. “Good progress is being made,” agreed Australian Climate Minister Chris Bowen.
Around 130 countries, including the United States and Brazil, called for an ambitious text that would send a clear signal to begin the decline of fossil fuels.
To date, only carbon reduction has been agreed at COP26 in Glasgow. Oil and gas were never mentioned.
The UAE draft agreement includes recognition of the role played by “transitional energies”, referring to gas, in ensuring “energy security” in developing countries, where almost 800 million people do not have access to electricity.
The text contains a series of energy-related calls: tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling the pace of improving energy efficiency by 2030, as well as accelerating “zero carbon” and “low carbon” technologies.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq have taken a hard line, rejecting any agreement that attacks fossil fuels, which are the source of wealth for these countries.
At a conference in Doha on Tuesday, Kuwait’s Oil Minister Saad al-Barrak denounced an “aggressive attack” by the West.
Source: TSF
