Voices: Moving away from fossil fuels is a step in the right direction
by Editorial
Dec 13, 2023
3 minutes
Until the last few hours of “extra time” at Cop28, the assembled leaders, diplomats, campaigners, businesspeople and academics in Dubai feared the very worst.
At a time when the world has lost some of momentum in the fight against climate change, as wars and economic hardship became more pressing priorities, the presidency of the United Arab Emirates – apparently, for the proceedings as a petrostate – seemed doomed to fail. The first draft of the final declaration made , let alone any commitment to phasing them out. This, so it was rumoured,
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