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"A fossil fuel phase-out is at the heart of this COP...we cannot afford to pretend that there are other pathways to achieve 1.5 when so many lives are at stake" Small island and vulnerable nations push back on COP28 President comments about fossil fuel phaseout:
![0930 - Mic drop: Lead negotiators at the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) put forward
a thinly veiled rebuke of comments by COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, who claimed yesterday
that there is "no science" to indicate that a fossil fuel phase-out is needed to keep 1.5C alive.
The AOSIS chair, from Samoa, stated bluntly and concisely: "The IPCC report is clear. We
need to phase out fossil fuels." For her part, the AOSIS fossil fuels lead negotiator, who hails
from the Marshall Islands, declared: "A fossil fuel phase-out is at the heart of this COP," adding
that "We cannot afford to pretend that there are other pathways to achieve 1.5 when so many
lives are at stake," perhaps referring to contentious proposals by the fossil fuel industry to lean
heavily on carbon capture and storage. "There are pieces to the puzzle, and we [welcome] the
commitment to scale up renewables... but you can't have an acceleration and scale-up of
renewables without addressing the other half of the equation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreifk7kstgcno6rygsoxi2svimjx364hunfuwpzddkuqeisanv5vfhe@jpeg)
KE
Ket-arbon Emissions Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
Fighting alongside my friends for the best possible pathway to climate justice and fossil fuel elimination. Anti-greenwashing.
Creator / curator of Greensky: tinyurl.com/3jk8zrt8
ketanjoshi.co/ ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
13k followers1.9k following11.7k posts