SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate

COP28, negotiations result in an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, without establishing a binding timetable or a “phase-out” plan

Brussels/Strasbourg, 13/12/2023 (Agence Europe)

“This gives a powerful impetus to the transition away from fossil fuels”, enthused the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the close of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which ended on Wednesday 13 December in Dubai. 

“The beginning of a phase-out”. The final version of the agreement, a response to the first Global Stocktake (of the implementation of the Paris Agreement in 2015), agrees to accelerate the...