A global pact to reduce the use of oil, gas and coal is being put to the test as countries expand fossil fuel production a year after the pledge was signed.
The agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels was a high point of last year’s United Nations climate summit in Dubai, known as COP28.
Now, as nations prepare for a new round of talks next month in Azerbaijan, some activists and officials from disaster imperiled countries say the pact is at risk of failing.
“Touting the ‘achievement’ at COP28 to ‘transition away from fossil fuels,’ while showing no follow-through on this pledge a year later is a sleight of hand that small islands cannot stand for,” Pa’olelei Luteru, the Samoan chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, said in an email to POLITICO’s E&E News.
