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‘Phase out all fossil fuels’: Action demanded as COP27 climate summit ends with little to show for it
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‘Phase out all fossil fuels’: Action demanded as COP27 climate summit ends with little to show for it
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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference winds down in Egypt, and with little progress apparent on key issues from loss and damage compensation to a clean energy transition, activists on Wednesday underscored the imperative to include a fossil fuel phaseout in the summit’s final text and keep oil, gas, and coal in the ground.
“Those who’ve traveled across the [world] to fight for 1.5°C at COP27, and their communities at home, are sick of waiting as delegates avoid, delay, and greenwash,” the climate action group 350.org tweeted, referring to the Paris agreement’s preferential global heating target. “We need ALL fossil fuels phased out, gas included—keep it in the ground, and keep 1.5 alive!”
As rich nations ignore pleas from campaigners and Global South stakeholders to pursue loss and damage payments to the countries that have contributed the least to—but suffer the most from—the climate emergency, and as fossil fuel interests and the governments they influence work to ensure fossil fuels are included in COP27’s final decision text, activists are growing more strident in their calls to action.
“This is our rallying cry—from actions, press conferences, to side events, today is the day where we, the civil society movement, are holding governments to account and demanding that an equitable, managed, and just phaseout of all fossil fuels must be in the cover decision of COP27,” 350.org executive director May Boeve said in a statement.
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