U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry on Wednesday hailed the decision to hold next year’s COP28 climate summit in OPEC member the United Arab Emirates, saying fossil fuel economies should be encouraged to lead the transition to clean energy.
The next United Nations climate conference will be held from late November in the oil and gas drilling nation, raising worries among some climate activists that this could hinder progress on moving the world away from reliance on fossil fuels.
"They're very smart because they know that what's coming out of the ground is not forever, either physically or politically, and they'reis going to look like. If there are going to be new forms of energy they want to be among the providers of it, just as they are today." He cheered the announcement of 30 upgraded national climate plans along with the summit’s headline agreement on “loss and damage” to help vulnerable countries pay the cost from climate-driven extreme weather and rising seas, which theSeveral governments and environmental organizations have criticized COP27, saying the agreement was too tepid to effectively fight climate change while failing to call for phasing out fossil fuels.
The former Secretary of State tested positive for COVID-19 late in the second week of the Egypt summit, forcing him to conduct negotiations by phone instead of in-person during the final 48 hours. He said his illness cut short what he had hoped could be a U.S.-China joint announcement on reducing methane emissions from the world’s two biggest emitters of the powerful greenhouse gas.
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