Next Tuesday is the key day for the climate summit to reach an agreement on the climate commitments of the world’s countries in the coming years. There is a point that is complicating the negotiations and it is a very specific phrase, which advocates “the progressive abandonment of fossil fuels.”

Up to 80 countries, led by United States and the European Unionsupport this postulate, while the block of Russia, China and Saudi Arabia They are frontally opposed. His veto could force that point to be removed from a final agreement, which must be reached by consensus.

However, the president of COP28, Sultan al Jaberbelieves that we will have an “unprecedented” agreement, conveying the “positive responses” it is receiving from different countries.

There will be eight ministers and senior representatives who will mediate between the 198 parties participating in this meeting. These eight negotiators will have “48 crucial hours“to seek a consensus between the parties, under the prediction that “something unprecedented is going to happen” in this already “historic” COP28 due to the agreements that have been adopted, such as the implementation of the loss and damage mechanism, he stated. Al Yaber.

Particularly, Al Jaberleader of the Emirati oil company ADNOC, placed high hopes that “the greatest possible ambition” ever produced in a COP regarding the language of reducing or abandoning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), one of the that generates the most tensions in climate discussions.

They demand a “paradigm change”

The highest representative of the UN for Climate Change, Simon Stiellalso intervened in that presentation to demand that during this week there be no “distractions or political tactics that keep climate ambition hostage” and urged that everyone “think outside the box” when negotiating.

“Climate action needs that paradigm shift“He asserted. The Danish negotiator and Minister of Cooperation and Climate of his country, Dan Jørgensen, was also ambitious, warning that political or economic reasoning will not prevent the temperature from continuing to rise and that therefore this is the time to make this summit “the most important since the Paris Agreement.”