{"id":413,"date":"2023-12-31T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/cop28-is-the-world-about-to-promise-to-ditch-fossil-fuels\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:35:31","slug":"cop28-is-the-world-about-to-promise-to-ditch-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/cop28-is-the-world-about-to-promise-to-ditch-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"COP28: Is the world about to promise to ditch fossil fuels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"e1j2237y5 bbc-q4ibpr ebmt73l0\">\n<div class=\"bbc-1atl7vu euvj3t14\">\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"bbc-ccegd7 euvj3t12\">\n<li role=\"listitem\" class=\"bbc-1a3w4ok euvj3t11\">By Justin Rowlatt<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\" class=\"bbc-1p92jtu euvj3t10\">Climate editor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2023-12-06\" class=\"bbc-1dafq0j e1mklfmt0\">6 December 2023<\/time><\/p>\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qn0xuy\"><figcaption dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-12kbik1 e6i104o0\"><span role=\"text\"><span class=\"bbc-m04vo2\">Image caption, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The future of fossil fuels is one of most contentious issues at COP28 in Dubai<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\"><b>The UN climate change conference in Dubai is close to a big breakthrough on reducing the gases heating our planet, its United Arab Emirates hosts believe.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Expressing &#8220;cautious optimism&#8221;, the UAE negotiating team believes COP28 is gearing up to commit to phasing down fossil fuels over coming decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Maybe even ditching them altogether. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Hosting a climate conference in a petrostate sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but there are signs that it could&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-67566443.amp\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Justin Rowlatt Climate editor 6 December 2023 Image caption, The future of fossil fuels is one of most contentious issues at COP28 in Dubai The UN climate change conference in Dubai is close to a big breakthrough on reducing the gases heating our planet, its United Arab Emirates hosts believe. Expressing &#8220;cautious optimism&#8221;, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-and-gas-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}