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COP 28 is scheduled to wrap up in two days time, but this year’s conference is bogged down in semantics as the delegates from various nations push their own agendas. The central failing of this and all COP conferences is that the rules require any final statement to be approved unanimously by all conference members — an arrangement that gives enormous power to laggards who want to slow walk climate action to save their own skins. At COP 26, a last minute demand to insert the word “phase-down” into the final communiqué led to president Akok Sharma reading it in tears.
Kuwait Wades In
This year, more than 100 nations are advocating for a statement that calls for a “phase out” of fossil fuels while the members of OPEC are being urged to resist such language with every fiber of…
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