Whatever the outcome at the UN Climate Change Conference, the world will end its reliance on fossil fuels not to a political timetable but only when reliable, affordable replacements are a reality.
There are two ways of viewing the Arabian Peninsula location of this week’s 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates.
One is that a petrostate is a strange venue when the tension point at COP28 is over the push to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels to help avert disastrous global warming, which may play out over whether the final communiqué backs a “phase down” or “phase out”.
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