Concerns About The Absence Of Commitment At COP29 To Phase Out Fossil Fuels

The COP29 climate change conference concluded without an explicit mention of the phase-out of fossil fuels, a setback considered “worrying” by many experts who see it as “a step backwards” in the fight against global warming.

In addition to an agreement on climate finance, obtained in the last few hours, negotiators from around the world meeting in Baku had proposed to study the implementation of the historic agreement of COP28 in Dubai in 2023 on fossil energies, the main causes of climate change. But in the end, text addressing this issue was not adopted, and countries regretted that it had been deleted. It is “very worrying,” François Gemenne, a Belgian climate policy researcher and co-author of the IPCC panel’s sixth report, told AFP.

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