NO ROADMAP AT СОРЗО TO TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS

The curtain on COP30 or the UN Climate Change Conference in the Brazilian city of Belem fell in the last week of November amid commitments, hopes, rage and disappointment. There have been reaffirmation of commitments to move away from fossil fuels, but the pledges by the rich countries have fallen short of any concrete roadmap of how to cut down the carbon emission responsible for global warming. The culprits behind the global warming have long been identified as coal, oil and gas. Sadly, like in the previous years the rich nations failed to live up to the expectations of at least 80 countries which pressed for the concrete roadmap on how to implement the commitments on reducing the use of fossil fuels and check the global warning at 1.5C of pre industrial level. Once again the fossil fuel — the elephant in the room — got less attention from the rich nations. Even though the summit saw deep divisions among the nations some positive developments did not go unnoticed.

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Not many will agree with him though. This year’s climate summit raised hope that there will be steps to build on commitments to move away from fossil fuels, phase out fossil fuel subsidies and boost the use of renewables. At least 88 countries have pushed for the issues to be included in the final declaration but what they received is disappointment. There has been no commitment on reforming the fossil fuel subsidies.

Many participants, however, wondered what happed to the Presidency’s call for “implementation COP.”

Instead, the outcome saw deep divisions on finance, trade measures, mitigation pathways, and other areas.