(The Guardian) Support for a proposal to "phase down all fossil fuels" is growing
According to Bloomberg, the US’s climate envoy John Kerry is now giving his backing to “a proposal to phase down all fossil fuels at the UN climate conference as long as it focuses on projects with unchecked emissions”.
India has already called for all countries to commit to phasing down fossil fuels with the UK’s backing, and earlier in the week the EU joined the call too. Bloomberg reports Kerry as saying: “It has to be unabated oil and gas … Phase down, unabated, over time. The time is a question, but ‘phase down’ is the language we supported.”
Support for the principle appears to be widening. Tuvalu’s Minister of Finance, Seve Paeniu, says: “Tuvalu welcomes India and the European Unions suggestion to include ‘all’ fossil fuel phase out in the COP27 cover text and encourages governments to join this call in the face of the climate emergency. The world needs a just and equitable energy transition, and investing in 100% renewable energy is the only way to achieve this.”
And Stephanie Crouzat, the climate ambassador for France, says: “India is floating the idea to phase down all fossil fuels, I think we should take them up on it. We should push phasing down and eventually phasing out.”
According to Bloomberg, the US’s climate envoy John Kerry is now giving his backing to “a proposal to phase down all fossil fuels at the UN climate conference as long as it focuses on projects with unchecked emissions”.
India has already called for all countries to commit to phasing down fossil fuels with the UK’s backing, and earlier in the week the EU joined the call too. Bloomberg reports Kerry as saying: “It has to be unabated oil and gas … Phase down, unabated, over time. The time is a question, but ‘phase down’ is the language we supported.”
Support for the principle appears to be widening. Tuvalu’s Minister of Finance, Seve Paeniu, says: “Tuvalu welcomes India and the European Unions suggestion to include ‘all’ fossil fuel phase out in the COP27 cover text and encourages governments to join this call in the face of the climate emergency. The world needs a just and equitable energy transition, and investing in 100% renewable energy is the only way to achieve this.”
And Stephanie Crouzat, the climate ambassador for France, says: “India is floating the idea to phase down all fossil fuels, I think we should take them up on it. We should push phasing down and eventually phasing out.”
