DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations climate conference on Friday began its final week with negotiators expected to zoom in on the future of fossil fuels on a dangerously warming planet.
The president of the COP28 climate summit on Sunday urged negotiators to work harder to find consensus on a proposed first-of-its-kind deal to phase out the world’s use of fossil fuels, as th…
Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to weather extremes as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks.
The United Arab Emirates, presiding over this year’s COP28 climate talks, called on countries to reduce their consumption and production of fossil fuels in order to achieve close-to net-zero by the middle of the century, setting the stage for a showdown between developed countries and petrostates wi…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to w
A stark standoff between countries that want a dramatic phase-out to fossil fuels causing damaging warming and those that don't crushed hopes for an on-time finish to a critical climate summit Tuesday.
COP28, a United Nations summit on climate change, was at risk of badly disappointing climate activists after numerous countries refused to sign on to a pledge to phase out fossil fuels.
By Angela Dewan, CNN Dubai (CNN) — International negotiators at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai are preparing for a long day of painstaking negotiations that are likely to stretch into overtime, as deep divisions remain over whether to phase out fossil fuels.
It's tempting to abandon the yearly climate conference when an oil executive is in charge and countries are clinging to fossil fuels. But the world doesn't have that luxury.
After a year of record-high temperatures and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, global leaders at the COP28 climate have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels.
Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first of its k…
Nearly 200 countries signed a deal to transition away from fossil fuels at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The summit’s president called it a historic agreement — but not all nations are satisfied, as Henry Ridgwell reports.
The summit stretched into eleventh hour negotiations over the terminology of the final text, after the “phase out” of fossil fuels was omitted from the draft a day before the end of the event.
Global climate negotiations ended in Dubai with the first-ever call to move away from fossil fuels, but many participants say the next steps don't go far enough.
