COP28 in UAE: Final stocktake report to be delivered today

COP28 in UAE: Final stocktake report to be delivered today

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Published: Tue 12 Dec 2023, 2:18 PM

With COP28 expected to deliver its final stocktake report today, the COP28 UAE Presidency has called on all negotiating parties “to roll up their sleeves and give a text that we all can be proud of."

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the final day of the UN Climate Summit, Ambassador Majid Al Suwaidi, director general of COP28 UAE presidency said that a new draft text has been drafted that will include a historic a comprehensive plans for the carbon emission mitigation.

He said in a prepared speech: “We are trying to agree on a comprehensive plan to close the gaps between where the world is and where it needs to be to keep 1.5ºC degrees within reach.”

The onus is now on the 198 countries attending the UN Climate Summit, Al Suwaidi underscored, noting the UAE has done its part – as host of COP28 – to include all the views from everyone, including governments and civil society organisations.

The main contention is on the language on fossil fuels in the final report. A draft was released on Monday calling for countries to reduce “consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and