COP28, agreement to move away from fossil fuels unanimously approved. Capasso: "Important result"
"In the agreement of the 198 delegates to the UN Conference, fossil fuels are mentioned for the first time. The catastrophism that accompanied Cop28 in Dubai may be greatly exaggerated because the consideration is in the agreement reached with difficulty despite the difficult negotiations on the future of fossil fuels. These appointments,' says Secretary-General Michele Capasso, 'are significant in charting the direction, but the real game is played in the field of the economy and society through a true ecological conversion on which the United States of the World has been insisting since 1997, and this is what the various representatives of the United States of the World have been insisting on at the various working tables in recent days".
After two weeks of intense collective negotiations on the climate crisis, the 198 countries participating in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference agreed to initiate a "transition away from fossil fuels" in order to reach the goal of zero emissions in 2050. A kind of fair "pathway", but one that takes up the Paris Agreement: that is, to strengthen climate action to contain the rise in temperature and to ensure that the (previously agreed) limit of one and a half degrees of average temperature compared to pre-industrial levels is not exceeded. The agreement reached in Dubai, therefore, takes into account precisely the most relevant aspects of the previous editions but introduces a difference: it puts in black and white - for the first time - the necessary overcoming of "fossil fuels".
