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COP28 was extended due to disputes over the final agreement

Katerina Belousova

The draft agreement will not help limit global warming to 1.5°C

The COP28 international climate conference, which was to end on Tuesday, December 12, was extended because the participants failed to agree on a final statement.

The main point of disagreement was the commitment to completely abandon fossil energy sources, i.e. coal, oil and gas, DW reports.

It is noted that Germany, the EU, and the United States insist on the abandonment of fossil fuels. Saudi Arabia and Russia oppose this decision.

The article says that the draft COP28 final statement does not contain a decision to completely abandon fossil fuels, but only calls to limit their use.

"The language used in the text of the treaty to talk about fossil energy sources does not stand up to the ability to meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C," US representative John Kerry said.

"We did not come to the conference to sign our death warrant," said John Silk, a representative of the Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands.

The representative of Saudi Arabia, Noura Alissa, emphasized that the final decision should satisfy everyone and meet the interests of each country, not one at the expense of others.

It is noted that one of the countries that advocated the continuation of the conference was Germany.

"This is not a problem for the European delegation. We have time, and we can stay longer," she said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Berbock

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that at the COP28 climate conference, the UAE presented a softened draft of the final agreement, which does not provide for a gradual abandonment of fossil fuels.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, the International Energy Agency has warned that the commitments made at the COP28 climate conference are not enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C, even if they are fulfilled.

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