World leaders take centre stage at UN climate talks in Dubai on December 1, under pressure to step up efforts to limit global warming.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit on Friday to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way to curb global warming.
Speaking a day after COP28 president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber proposed embracing the continued use of fossil fuels, Guterres said: “We cannot save a burning planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels.”
“The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate,” he said, referring to nascent technologies to capture and store carbon emissions.
The competing visions summed up the difficulty of this year’s U.N. climate summit in the oil-producing United Arab Emirates, where divisions over fossil…
