BERLIN: Sultan Al Jaber, the president of this year's United Nations climate talks hosted by the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday (May 2) called on participants to drastically ramp up their
"We must be laser focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions, while phasing up viable, affordable zero-carbon alternatives," said Al Jaber in his speech ahead of the climate summit in November.
While solar and wind power are already increasing dramatically, the UN report said that existing fossil fuel infrastructure will be enough to push the world beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, absent the use of costly and emerging technology to capture and store the carbon pollution. "This is holding up progress. And as part of my outreach, I am requesting donor countries to provide a definitive assessment on the delivery of this commitment before COP28," Al Jaber said.
At the same time, the funding needed for developing countries to stop burning planet-heating fossil fuels and prepare for tomorrow's climate disasters has already far outstripped that sum.
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