Dubai | Phasing out oil, gas and coal will benefit Australia as the country reinvents itself as a renewable-energy superpower, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said on Monday.

The 198 countries at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai have reached what could be the final 24 hours of an increasingly tense arm-wrestle over whether to agree to a global fossil fuel phase-out. Mr Bowen told reporters that a strongly worded decision was in Australia’s interests.